Having writer’s block and can’t think of any original content to write for your blog? If you have written one article already, then you have an advantage in coming up with a new topic. There are several ways to come up with article ideas based on your previous articles.

If you haven’t written any articles yet, you can take a look at articles on the internet that relate to your desired topic to come up with new ideas.

Organizing Yourself and Staying on Track

If you’ve hit a road block and your mind isn’t coming up with any new ideas, it’s probably a good idea to take a step back and organize yourself. You should come up with a systematic way to create new topics. Follow this system in a robotic way. Don’t force your brain to think. Let your brain think on its own.

Create an Article Title List - Create a simple text file on your computer to list article titles. When you come up with a new idea, you’ll add it to this list. You’ll be surprised at how many ideas you’ll end up coming up with. As you use the titles to write new articles, delete them from the list. This is the ultimate list that you want to put the most focus on. This is your idea database, so if you have anything written here, you know what to write for your next article.

Use the Thesaurus to Create a Keyword List – In order to come up with ideas, you should give your mind more opportunity for inspiration. Take specific words from written articles and list synonyms.

Create a List of What Your Readers Might Want to Learn from You – Put yourself in the shoes of your readers. What questions can you form based on previous articles? Be picky and specific. Use your instincts and write down the first thing that comes to mind. If it’s a good enough question, you can use the words to create an article title from it.

Keep in mind that you are the expert. You have a unique perspective that doesn’t exist in anyone else. Your perception is what you’re writing about. It’s unique and original even if you’re writing about well-known topics.

Use the Title Keywords to Form New Titles

For this method, we will use the following title as an example:

How to Get a Cheap Website

The keywords are Cheap and Website. We should build the organizational lists explained above, starting with using the thesaurus. Next, we will try to ask ourselves what the readers want to know based on the keywords. Then we will try to form new article ideas from the whole title itself. Whenever we think of a new topic, we should write it in our article title list.

Let’s start with the keyword: Cheap. Its synonyms are bargain, budget, competitive, and worth the money. There are many other synonyms being excluded but let’s go ahead and come up with some new, related article ideas using these words:

Measuring Competitors

Is Purchasing a Website Worth the Money?

Managing a Budget

In order to step into the readers’ minds, we need to think about who would want cheap websites – businesses, individuals with little or no money, and not-for-profit organizations. Besides a website, what else could they want for a lower price? Let’s reuse the previous synonyms to create new topics based on economical decisions.

Measuring Your Website Competitors

Looking for Government Grants for Your Non-Profit Website

Fitting a Website into Your Business Budget

Notice how competitive was transformed into competitors. The idea of focusing on title keywords is to expand them into different topics. Doing this inspires new ideas which inspire new ideas and you’ll eventually come up with non-related topics from related topics. The possibilities are endless, but don’t wait for inspiration.

Take Topics from Your Article Entry to Expand On

For this method, we will use the following paragraph as an example:

If you want to find a cheap website you should do three things. First, choose the right website designer. Second, combine website features and components. Third, make sure maintenance is included in the hosting plan.

To effectively come up with new article ideas from your previous article entries, take a look at each sentence and see if you can transform that into a more specific article topic. Right of the bat, we can turn the three ways to get a cheap website into three new articles:

How to Choose the Right Website Designer

Effectively Combining Website Features and Components

Pay for Maintenance and Hosting Together to Save Money

You can use these titles to come up with new titles. Apply the thesaurus method first. However, sometimes it’s better to write the articles before you use their titles to create new ideas. It’s easier to have a better idea of what your articles are about.

The more you practice these methods, the better and faster you’ll be at creating numerous and original topics that all relate to each other. Don’t forget to link your articles to one another, especially if you’ve written articles on external websites. This will increase your website traffic and backlinks.