What to do when you have nothing to write?

How many times have you been on Steemit wanting to do more, wanting to write the next big article. A thousand words of genius poured from your silver tongue onto the internet to be voted and resteemed by all who read it. Sound familiar? Just like the part where you stare at a blank screen for an hour before flicking onto YouTube and spending two hours watching animals do funny things.

It happens to us all I think. Where is that moment of inspiration going to come from? That Einstein spark of genius to ignite your blog.

Nothing yet?

That’s because it rarely just strikes.
Most authors spend more time planning their chapters and building backgrounds and story lines than they do actually writing out the script. Of course there is always the exception to any rule but the majority of successful articles that I come across on the site have one thing in common. They are well presented.

They have a good topic, well written and have the pictures and data to back up their point. When it is laid out like this for the reader, it is easy to engage them in the topic.

So how to choose your topic?

What is your interest?


Are you an author, programmer, photographer?
Do you have an interest in animals or nature, food or fiction?

Pick what direction that you would like to take. If you don’t know what that is, stick with what you know. If your interest is breeding snails it doesn’t matter. Give people a new and unique perspective on how to breed snails.

The way that Steemit is set up right now can make it very hard to find your people. The people that want to read about breeding snails ect... So why not find them first. Search for topics that you will be posting on and engage the authors. Discuss their view on the matter and present yours in the comments. If they know that you will be posting on a topic that they have an interest in it will be much easier to get people to read it that will genuinely be interested in what you have to say.

So where do you start?

Start at the beginning. Set up the article with an entrance to the topic. What it is. Why you are writing about it. What you are hoping to achieve by the end.
I used to have an English teacher in school, we called him chicken. Now chicken hated me. And I hated him. But what he did manage to get across in no less than 5 years of education was that every story needs a beginning, middle and end. I take this approach with articles as well. I think that a bit of structure helps the reader to follow your point and get a result at completion.

So when you have filled out the main body of your article, close it off with your results. Leave the reader in no doubt that the topic is finished and you know expect them to know exactly how to breed snails from start to finish.

So even if you don’t think that you have anything to offer on here, try.


Pick a subject that you know and love.
Introduce it to the audience.
Let them know why they will be interested too.
Leave them with something new.
Give feedback in the comments.
Use this to build on your next article.

To anybody reading this, feel free to comment, follow, advise or challenge. I hope to meet many more interesting people on the site as it grows over the next months.