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Ten  Ways to Break Bloggers’ Block Forever:

1. “Use the force, Luke.”

* Writing blog posts are part science, part intuition and part just using “the force” (your keyboard and typing!)

2.  Herman Blume: What’s the secret, Max?
Max Fischer: The secret?
Herman Blume: Yeah, you seem to have it pretty figured out.
Max Fischer: The secret, I don’t know… I guess you’ve just gotta find something you love to do and then… do it for the rest of your life. For me, it’s going to Rushmore.

* Blog about that which you love. Truly, madly, deeply. Share the love.

3. Ron Burgundy: I’m very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.

* Keep your ego, your mahogany and your leather-bound books in check. Your readers are the most important ones, not you!

4. Cal Naughton, Jr.: Shake and bake!
Ricky Bobby: What does that do? Does that blow your mind? That just happened!
Jean Girard: Is that a catchphrase or epilepsy?

* Find a good catchphrase to brand your blog and its contents.

5. Ethel: Well, I don’t think it’s very intelligent to keep an electrical gadget on the edge of the tub.
Margot: [in bath] I tie it to the radiator.

* Don’t blog from the bathtub – no matter what.

6. Charlotte: I just don’t know what I’m supposed to be.
Bob: You’ll figure that out. The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

* Don’t blog as someone you’re not.

7. Narrator - “This is a story about a man named Harold Crick and his wristwatch. Harold Crick was a man of infinite numbers, endless calculations, and remarkably few words.”

*Don’t be a blogger of few words. Don’t endlessly calculate the word count of your blog posts. Be a blogger of infinite content.

8.  Dr. Jules Hilbert: What is your favorite word?
Harold Crick: Integer.

*Ask a question as a blog post and get tons of conversations started! Start with one question every Friday, share your answer and encourage others to chime in as well. 

9.  Veronica Corningstone: I told you that I wanted to be an anchor…

Ron Burgundy: I thought you were kidding. I thought it was a joke. I even wrote it down in my diary – Veronica had a very funny joke today. I laughed about it later that night.”

*Blog your dreams – raise your aspirations - blogger love thyself!

10. Ron Burgundy: …laughing and enjoying our friendship, and someday we’ll look back on this with much fondness.

*Don’t give up! Keep at it and you’ll be amazed at the community you will foster. 
 

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