Evaluating Blog Post Ideas: How to Think About a Blog Post Idea That Seems Not to Be Working for You

Intro

Let's imagine: you have an idea that you want to write a new blog post about. You captured that idea, thinking this may be a candidate for a blog post. When the time to write comes, you are feeling unsure whether to write on the subject you have, because you do not know if you have something worthwhile to share. Sound familiar? In this blog post, I discuss how to solve this problem.

First of all, I am not an expert on the staff I write about in this blog post. I learn, and I write here what I discovered.

My Story

Recently, I had an idea to write about drag-and-drop functionality in JavaScript. Do not remember how quickly I decided to start writing, but I did start writing. I wrote some standard stuff that you can find in the documentation. I wasn't happy about my blog post, and thought about whether I should write about something else and discard what I had. I decided to ask AI about what to do in this situation. It gave me an idea about telling your story. It isn't that I didn't know about it before, but it reminded me that I had a story on the subject, actually. I discarded what I had before and wrote my story, where I talked about something useful.

What Can You Do To Decide Whether Your Idea is Worth Writing About or Not When in Doubt?

To decide whether to use your idea when in doubt, think about what you have to share that is related to your topic. In my example, I initially wanted to discard my blog post and write about something else because I thought that I had nothing valuable to share. After using AI to help me think, I reconsidered my original idea and discovered a new angle. The result is that instead of abandoning my original idea, I found a new idea that is related to the original. The key is not give up on your original idea too quickly. Take time to explore related perspectives.

If you understand that you do not have anything valuable to share about your idea after taking time to evaluate, then you can do two things: learn about the subject and share something about it, or abandon the idea and move on to the next one. If you are willing to learn about the subject, then this is definitely a good option to choose. But if you do not want to learn about that, just abandon it.

Conclusion

That's it! This is how you can decide to either continue working on your original idea or to abandon it and move to the next one. If you like this article, please share it with someone who might find it interesting too.

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