How do you keep getting new ideas for new hubs day in and day out?
what do you do to get inspired to write new hubs? how do you find new topics? What sparks an idea for a new hub?
I write on things which I think are important for me and for everyone else to discuss. Some other blogs though, are just on places I visited and some thoughts about my travels. And then, I have some pieces of writing which are simply journal entries.
I find that if nothing else, there are always social issues which can be discussed.
My ideas are sometimes inspired from my everyday life, sometimes curiosity about something I've heard, sometimes from a desire to share something I know, and sometimes from a question left in comments to one of my hubs. For example, we successfully potty trained our beagle puppy (not an easy breed to train) so I wrote a hub about it. One day my daughter was home sick and I remembered how my mother would give us ginger ale to make us feel better, which inspired me to write about the health benefits of ginger. And, lately I've noticed how some hubs could be so easily improved in terms of seo if only writers knew simple steps to follow. Since I have knowledge of html and web design I decided to share what I know. On those hubs I have gotten questions, where my answers to them were so long that I decided to write a hub about it instead.
One thing I do is keep a notebook that I jot down any potential ideas. This really helps when I am ready to write and need an idea.
I am a web designer, and have many customers who have the coolest businesses. So I am always thinking of hubs I can make for them to help show what they do. I also live in the most beautiful place on earth (Salmon Idaho) and have a new camera! So I am always taking pictures and movies... and each one deserves a hub.
So it's not a matter of thinking of new things to write about, but of keeping up with my brain. If only I could make hubs in my sleep.
as long as i am on the high end of my swinging pendulum of bipolar 2...the difficulty is not in thinking up ideas to write about...it is in keeping up with the many ideas that are constantly pouring into my head. sometimes i have so many it gets confusing. i end up writing nothing at all. i have to stop and wait til i can make sense of my thoughts again.
It helps to have a pen handy so that ideas don't get lost. In my car, for example, I might write down ideas inspired by something on the radio or an unusual pedestrian. (We have lots of unusual pedestrians in Santa Cruz.) So today I wrote "exploding electronic cigarettes" and "man with rabbit on head." I keep these notes together as fodder for writing. I also eavesdrop on conversations and write down the dialogue for the same reason...
Another way to get writing ideas is to browse other article sites like StumbleUpon. You can choose to only see articles in categories that interest you.
by Eric Farmer 6 years ago
I want to write a lot of hubs (compared to what I wrote last year) this year. But the main hurdle is that I feel like I ran out of ideas or cannot create good ideas for new hubs.I come with some ideas, but they end up being too general or not good for online search. I try to think of more specific...
by sir_tallest 12 years ago
Where do you get topics or keywords you use when you write your blog or hubsI have been looking for good keywords and topics to write with but somehow I have not found keywords nor nice topics,,,,please can you share your ideas with me
by Liam Hallam 7 years ago
What's the single most important piece of advice you would give to a new hubber?What do you know now that you wished you'd know/ or been told when you started? What's the single most important piece of advice you would give to a new hubber?
by Eric Farmer 4 years ago
Oops I meant to type by the end of 2020. LOLI feel like this is a reasonable goal to accomplish. This should be fun.As of right now, I have 26 hubs on TurboFuture and LevelSkip. I also have two black sheep hubs on ToughNickel.I will need to write about 70 new hubs to complete this goal. I will only...
by Hindol Adhya 14 years ago
Only 3 Hubs and I am out of ideas. But I see many people writing 2-3 Hubs a day. How do they (you) do it?
by Sophia Angelique 14 years ago
I was reading Mark Knowles bit about how to write. It got me to thinking even more. I'm really finding it difficult to find topics to write about that are paying topics (as do many). I've got a handful of topics that are doing well. However, they're not exactly things I know a lot about. All those...
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