I have been struggling to keep posting on my blog, bet you have too. So what do you do to get motivated and keep going?

If you have had a blog for a while, jaundice can set in. If you are just starting a blog then you may be looking for inspiration. So to get you started, these are the things that have worked for me in the past and I intend to use them again,starting Now!

My top 3 tips for starting or restarting your blog posts are an in no particular order:

1. Change your environment. This can work wonders. If you are getting stale looking at the same wall or view every day, move now and then. I have a laptop so it's portable, if you haven't; I suggest that you save up for one starting now. These are the things you might try;

* Internet cafes, great for coffee as well
* A friends house, preferably when they are not there to interrupt, offer you wine, gossip, food etc. Leave that till later!
* Another room in your own house. If you work at your kitchen table, go into a bedroom or the garden. This works wonders (particularly the garden)
* What about your local library. Mine has wi-fi (for a small fee) and it's very quiet in there. Do people not read anymore?

My local cafe doesn't have wi-fi but it does do fantastic cheese and tomato sandwiches so I work offline and then sort it out when I get back home.

2. Try free writing. It's often difficult to get started but if you simply stick pen to paper (I find that this works better than typing) and just start scribbling. If you set yourself a broad topic and just jot down all you thoughts and allow yourself to go off at a tangent, it's amazing how much stuff tumbles out. Some of it will be pure junk but I have often found a train of thought in there that has set off a whole series of blogs posts. I sat down thought about what I had read and written about this previously and started belting down words like, Where? When? How? Where do I write? When do I jumpstart my writing and how do I do it. That got me moving again.

The purists do say that you should write whatever comes into your head and I find that works sometimes, but you then have to work through a lot of gibberish. Starting with a broad idea for a topic and then working within that can help

3. Pinch other ideas. Well not literally. I find that if I am stuck for ideas, I visit a few forums and see what is being talked about and then have a bit of a freewrite, think and start typing.

The best tip I came across is to write the post, just sit and write. You may not press publish but it can often undo that block and get you going again. Sometimes you just gotta take a break though!

You just need to get going and keep going.