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WHAT DO YOU WRITE ABOUT
\nWhen There’s Nothing to Write About?<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"Bloggers<\/a><\/p>\n

So what exactly can you write about… when there’s nothing<\/em> to write about?<\/span>
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\nWhen you have Blogger’s Block<\/strong> and it won’t go away.<\/span>
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\nYou can…<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nRepurpose Something<\/span><\/h2>\n

What do you mean by that, David?<\/span>
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\nLet me explain.<\/span>
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\nLast week, I was struck with a bout of perfectionism.<\/span>
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\nI knew what I wanted to write about, and I’d begun to write the post.<\/span>
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\nBut it was nowhere near complete.<\/span>
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\nIt wasn’t perfectly right.<\/span>
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\nPerfectionism at its worst.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Perfectionism<\/a>
Perfectionism blocked my blogging<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\nSo what did I do?<\/span>
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\nInstead, I took an email which I’d written many months previously, and I re-wrote it as a blog post.<\/span>
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\nOoh! Are you allowed to do that, David?<\/span>
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\nYup! You certainly are.<\/span>
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\nIf you want to have a read, it’s over here on my How To Cruise website<\/a> (a site for people who have never been on a cruise but want to find out about cruising).<\/span>
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\nYou see…<\/span>
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\nThere’s a page on that website where visitors can subscribe – and they’ll receive the free weekly “cruise chat” email.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Lots<\/a>
Lots of emails to choose from<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve written 164 of these emails to date.<\/span>
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\nSo I carefully chose one of them, changed it around to become more like a blog post, added a picture or two and posted it on the blog.<\/span>
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\nAnd that, my friend, is repurposing: it’s taking one piece of content and recreating it into another piece of content.<\/span>
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\nSo next time you’re wondering what to write for your blog, why not check out your…<\/span><\/p>\n