When you first start a blog the first two weeks are amazing. You’re reading feeds, you’re posting daily–maybe several times a day–, and it’s very cool! Then reality sets in, commonly called “real life” or “work” or “eating”, and your posting starts to drop off. Hey it’s normal. Look at this blog or my own blog and you’ll see some gaps in the content, we always come back though and sometimes better than ever (sometimes). How do we do it? How have Jim and I, and millions of other bloggers, kept posting for years? Here are some of my tricks:

1. Remember it’s not the end of the world if you don’t post. Really, missing a day or two won’t stop the Earth from spinning on its axis. You’re allowed a life and a break.
2. Read and leave comments on your friends’ blogs. Strange as it might seem, I get inspiration by sitting back and reading posts my friends put up. Thinking about what they are saying often leads to a lot of great posts later
3. Just write something, anything, to get the words flowing. Maybe not even something to post, but just get the brain working
4. Change your venue. Sometimes I take my laptop from one desk and move to another, or the couch, or a chair. Sometimes just going to a cafe and being around other people helps
5. Go offline. My best posts are often written when I’m offline. Maybe I’m on a ferry. Maybe I’m just sitting somewhere without access. Without the interruptions of e-mail, IMs, even RSS and other websites, I can focus on the task at hand
6. Crank the tunes. Find the music that inspires you and crank it. I have play lists with different vibes to them for different writing moods. Right now it’s my “Whatever” mix with a huge range of artists, but generally good beats, lyrics, and intensity. If I need to be more introspective, the mellow stuff comes out.
7. Take a break. Shower, exercise (yeah I know we geeks have trouble with this one sometimes), have a snack, make some coffee. Just break the routine enough to make your mind start whirring again.
8. Read. Yep and not RSS always. A book (you know those things made from dead trees). When I was writing my Masters thesis I kept Stephen King’s Different Seasons on my desk, when I was stuck I would open it to a random thought and read for about 20 minutes. Really helps, though it did make parts of my thesis a little dark and creepy in parts.

Those are just a few of my tips. What do you do to kick start your writing?

Taken from http://www.onebyonemedia.com/sustaining-your-blog-easy-steps-to-keep-it-going/