A lot of people blog for a living these days. A lot of bloggers get into it because they have a website and have found blogging to be a way to get traffic to their website. Others bloggers are writers who make extra income writing blog posts for others. Many bloggers do both.

If you’re writing blog posts for a living, you’re going to have to do a lot of writing to make any money at it. You may find yourself writing up to a hundred articles a week. If you’re stuck for ideas, you’re going to have a hard time making your quotas!

Sometimes, you have to write multiple articles on one subject. This is good in one way, because it cuts down on your research time. If you get an assignment to write about something you don’t know anything about – scrapbooking papers, for example – you will have to spend as much as an hour researching the subject. That’s a lot of wasted time for one article, but not much at all for a series of ten or twenty.

At other times, you will be given only one article to write. If its about something technical, turn it down if you can. Your hourly rate will plummet if you’re only writing 500 words about the inner workings of a digital sport watch. If all they want you to do is write about how beautiful the watch is, that’s another matter.

Some writers prefer to have to do all that fact gathering because facts give them ideas. If they’re given a vague assignment, they can’t think of a thing to say. How, for example, can you write 500 words about a black helmet? White helmets are white, black ones are black. End of story. How can you turn that into 500 words?

If that describes you, try taking on a few non-technical articles for a change of pace. When you learn to de-activate your intellectual mind and activate your creative mind, you’ll find that you have plenty to write about. Let your feelings and imagination take over. Beautiful Parisian models wear white helmets as they glide through the streets of Paris on their motor scooters. Evil biker gangs wear black. It doesn’t matter what the statistics say. If you’re writing about aesthetics, it’s feelings that count.

If you’re a creative writer by nature, all you need are a few facts in your blog articles. You can fill in the blanks with creative fluff. You’re not expected to be writing an authoritative textbook, just a light and informative blog article. Keep blogging fun and you will find yourself writing faster and better naturally.