How to Write To Keep Writing
You are sitting there wondering to write about and just can’t come up with something that will get you pounding away on those keys. We have all been there at one time or another. One way to get past that blank page or screen is this: just write.
Whether you use a pen and paper or pound away on the keyboard, if you just start writing, you will actually come to that light at the end of the tunnel. When you write, you are writing; it doesn’t matter what it is, just as long as you’re writing. Within an amount of time, you will not have only just written some ramblings, you have put down the puzzle pieces that can come together to form your next writing article, blog post or whatever you were working to create.
Free writing, as it’s called, has helped me on many an occasion where I was fighting with being one of the less then enlightened. When you start to free write you may ask, “What do I write about?” That’s the beauty of free writing, just write; it doesn’t matter what it is, just starting putting down words. I have actually started some of my free writing with things such as – I don’t know what to write but I am just here writing and writing down words on this paper.
Now there are other ways to jump start that idea factory in your head for your next writing project. Some things that come to mind include mind mapping and editorial calendars for generating writing ideas; however, I have not found a simpler and more proven method of getting my noggin working then doing some basic free writing.
So remember this, when you are struggling to find what to write on next, just start writing and see what you come up with. You will be amazed at what puzzle you can create and put together with such a simple thing as free writing.
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I too am a proponent of freewriting, not just for ideas, but for emotional blockages as well. Sometimes it’s hard to get started on open-ended freewriting, so I will set a 10 minute timer. That way I am not distracted, knowing that I’ve got 10 uninterupted minutes to just write.