Writing Tips: Coming Up with Valuable Writing Ideas

Do you have questions about things? Maybe you want to know more about search engine optimisation or you’re looking into the best type of loan. Once you gather all your information, you can use it to create your own post and write the content in a way that would help you and others in a similar situation to you.

You do need to be careful with this though as it can become spammy. You also need to make sure you research all the statistics and facts that you are including. You don’t want to lead someone in the wrong direction. I always include a line about it being for informational purposes and not advice because I’m not trained in the subject. It’s just the information I’ve found after searching lots of different sources.

Include all the sources you use at the bottom. This will allow your readers to go back and look at the information you pulled. It means your readers can check the sources for themselves—they may read it in another way or need it for another purpose.

You don’t want a post to be too long. Depending on the subject, any more than around 1000 words and people will start to get bored. The only time I write over 1000 words is when I’m writing about history or where I can break up content easily so readers don't feel like they are reading a lot. As you get longer, it’s better to split your pieces into separate posts and make them easier for your reader.

This is a create way with coming up with more posts. You will soon find that one of your writing ideas turns into two, three and maybe four.

Do a Google search or check out books within your niche. What are people currently writing about? No; this is not about copying! This writing tip is all about getting the writing ideas! You want to do what others do but much better. You just need to look at the titles to get an idea and tell the story in your own words.

For example, there are many people writing about the execution of Anne Boleyn but I’ve written about it here and on HubPages. My aim is to tell the story the way that I see. I want to look at it from all sides. Was she guilty? Maybe. Did Thomas Cromwell have a lot to do with the conviction? Of course! Would she have been found guilty in a court of law today? Definitely not! I take all the information I’ve learnt elsewhere and create my own pieces and add my own thoughts and believes that are completely different to others out there!

I used to never go anywhere without a notebook and pen. Now I have my phone and Evernote. Always have a notebook with you so you can make a note of all your writing ideas; even keep one beside your bed! You never know when an idea will strike and your brain won’t remember it forever. You will be lucky if your brain remembers it a few minutes later.

It is also worth creating a mind map for  your ideas. This works similarly to your brain. As you come up with ideas around a topic, you can branch out further with the map and see where different niches can join together. You will soon find that coming up with writing ideas isn’t the problem but doing something with them all becomes a pain!

Keyword research is the last of my writing tips for creating ideas for topics. Do keyword research into a niche that you want to write on and then look at the list of words that come up. Some can be very vague but others will give you the ability to create specific topics and the writing ideas will flow.

For example, I was looking for keyword phrases to do with Anne Boleyn. A few came up such as Anne Boleyn execution and Anne Boleyn downfall. Ideas started to flow about ways that I could use those keyword phrases in my content and they weren’t the typical ideas of writing about the execution and stages in the downfall. It’s amazing how the brain works when you just take three or four word phrases.

Good luck with coming up with your writing ideas. With the tips above you’ll find that it is much easier than you believed in the past. Get into a habit of writing daily and you’ll soon find all the writing ideas flow.