Blogging has become a way in which many people have found they can make a living. Some sell things online and others get paid to write blog posts and articles for others. Still other bloggers do both. They work on their own website and blog in their spare time and make a living blogging as their day job.

If you’re a professional blogger, you are going to be writing up to a hundred blog posts per week if you’re going to make decent money. No matter how fast you can type, you’re not going to get very far if you can’t think of anything to write about.

Blogging assignments change from one day to the next. Occasionally, you’ll be given an assignment to write a lot of articles about one thing. That’s great in one respect, because you only need to do your research once and then get down to making money blogging. You may have to research a subject you’re unfamiliar with. Spending an hour learning about scrapbooking papers, for instance, isn’t so bad if you follow up with a dozen or more articles about the subject.

If you’re given a technical assignment and they only want a single article, turn it down if it doesn’t negatively impact your job. If you have to spend three hours reading about the inner mechanism of a digital sport watch and then get paid for only 500 words, your hourly rate won’t amount to much. If all you have to do is write about how good the watch looks, though, that’s easy.

Some writers prefer to have to do all that fact gathering because facts give them ideas. If they’re given a vague assignment, they can’t think of a thing to say. How, for example, can you write 500 words about a black helmet? White helmets are white, black ones are black. End of story. How can you turn that into 500 words?

If you’re a technical writer, try to write a few non-technical articles. Turn off that part of your brain that tells you you’ve got to get the facts and let your feelings flow. White helmets are for chicks, black for bikers. That’s probably not universally true, but if it’s your angle, go for it! Aesthetics are always subjective, so your article won’t be rejected.

Creative writers often get frustrated by technical articles. If that sounds like you, just gather a few pertinent facts and weave them into your article, filling in the blanks with fluff. You’re writing a blog post, not a textbook, after all. All your employer is asking of you is that you write a certain number of informative words. He’s not asking for a Pulitzer Prize, so don’t get carried away. Keep it light and enjoyable and you will find yourself getting much more work done.