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So, you want to be a blogger.
Chances are pretty good that if you’ve ever said that out loud someone has told you that you should be writing every day. Or three times a week. Or weekly. Or at least regularly.
Maybe that someone was even me.
Chances are also pretty good that you’ve had this panicked thought run around your brain like a crazed hamster:
holy crap! I’m going to run out of stuff to say before I even get any readers.
Deep breath, writer.
You’re going to be okay.
Because the internet is a wild and wonderful place full of bajillions of human beings who are all asking questions on multitudes of topics.
We are legion and we are curious.
We have already asked the questions on every single topic there is under the sun.
All you have to do is find those questions and answer them.
I promise you, once you figure out how to do that, your own creativity will kick in and you’ll augment those questions, and you will never run out of things to say.
It’s more likely that you’ll barely scratch the surface.
For the purpose of this post, I’m going to chose a niche topic that isn’t anything that I write about. I just want you to see that you can be very specific — and still find a ton to write about.
Because just outside my office window on this gorgeous August Sunday morning there are a bunch of people kayaking down the Allegheny river, let’s use: river kayakingas our topic.
I’m going to introduce you to three free tools today that you can use to find topics for your blog posts.