A learning officer struggling with learning

A colleague asked me to look at their blog recently and it reminded me that I had not been writing on mine for ages!  I'm definitely struggling with the technological side of devloping and working on blogs.   I can do the plain bit of typing but developing content that is interesting or backgrounds or any of the other technical twizzles seems to be a bit beyond me at present!   Has anyone got any simple tips or instructions that help the simpletons like me!   Undoubtedly, like anyone else trying to lear a whole new subject I need to take time to concentrate, read the help pages and practice!  As they say practice makes perfect ... I really must learn from my own teachings!