Choosing a subject for a blog can be easiest and hardest thing one can embark upon! When I was thinking of creating a blog, I was torn between desire to create something unique and as opposed to an English blog. I dreamt of concocting some “Unique niches” that would bring me fame. Although I had a good alternative blog subject, I was afraid of competition. While I was right in a sense, I was undermining my most valuable asset – Content Writing. I finally chose what I wanted to write daily, English content.
Writing is a pleasurable activity only if readers and writer both enjoy it. So you need to choose a subject that draws interest of many as well as passion within you. The subject should be within your expertise and gives you a chance to enhance your knowledge as you keep writing. The subject should not be so common that no one seems interested or so limited that no one knows about it. Finally, give your subject your voice and your personality. Good writing has its own style, its own crisp tone which readers will enjoy. Bloggers enjoy perceptive observations of a particular subject. Maybe the subject you have chosen may not seem interesting but your insight might offer will create the interesting factor in it.
If you are having a hard time selecting a subject:
Brainstorm: If you are having a hard time deciding upon a subject. Just take a pencil and paper, and write down whatever subject comes to mind first. Do not bind your mind to write about a subject or a style, just keep writing as you feel. The purpose of this exercise is to know ourselves better. Some times we need to write in order to really know what we want to keep writing. I happen to do this all the time. Write upon an experience, an opinion or maybe just your feelings. Give yourself some space and you might be surprised by the outcome.
Record your thoughts: You may wonder at this one, but it’s true! Most of our good thoughts surface not when we are free, but when we are completely busy. Working gives us more ideas, more the work, more the ideas. There are many times when we hear good thoughts or phrases that we like. Sadly, many of our good ideas are lost as we continue our work. It is therefore a good habit to keep a few loose pages or a small notebook on our desk. Write a small note of ideas that pop up, you can always think about them in your free time.
The advantage of keeping such a book is when you actually sit down to write something, you won’t have trouble finding a subject for writing. You will already have a hard disk of information, phrases and thoughts; all you have to do is enhance it, and create them into useful posts. In other words, keeping a journal of your day-to day thoughts will help you learn more, express better and eventually become a better writer.
Conduct an experiment: Start a free blog on Wordpress or Blogger. Write whatever you feel like jotting down and continue to write for a few days. Slowly, you will create a style and understand what you prefer writing and what you don’t. A pattern will clearly emerge in your writing and you will be more confident upon writing a particular subject. To know more, ask bloggers to analyze your blog writing, they might be able to offer you good comments or may point out where you are wrong. The more you write, the more you learn.
Finally, a subject is important for a blog, it is not a necessity. Spread your wings of imagination and create something beautiful, something expressive, isn’t that what writing is about?