Topics to write about have become really scarce for me... I know I only wrote one topic so far and yes it’s true I am out of ideas.
They call it writers block. Which I think can only be used as an excuse once you wrote a book or something. Not just one article or one blog post. But that just what happens to me, I start something and then I never finish it. The first article I finished surprisingly but it was short.
So I came to a question why write at all? I don’t know you tell me. Being stuck on the question for a while I decided that I will think about it. And I have. People write things down or up, (whatever is your preference) is so that they won’t forget it.
Now this may sound a little absurd, yes I know it does but hear me out.
That awesome book you read, you know the one that captured your imagination, took you to a whole new world? Yea that one. Well guess why the author wrote it... Yep you guessed it so that he won’t forget the awesome world and characters he created. When the time comes and someone asks him/her "Hey you ever think of something awesome like this...” (And then goes into describing some weird and strange world) the author of said book will pull his book out and be like "Yes I did."
Yea you may argue that is not the only reason authors write stuff. Maybe not but I like to think so. Makes it a lot less stressful to create worlds and put ordinary ideas into them. When you are writing just so that you won’t forget it tomorrow, you are not worried about sounding dumb or too weird, you know? You will probably change everything in this story tomorrow anyways, right?
So let your creative juices flow.
People express them self in a lot of different ways, writing, drawing and making music. Which are all awesome ways of expressing yourself. But I always wanted to express myself in writing and found the idea of writing something with a genuine meaning just too daunting and never did it.
So now I just write short and pointless stories to keep my brain occupied for a short time. Like weight lifting for the mind, just write stuff to get your brain thinking.
Hopefully this will help others out there to write more and express them self. Don’t be too serious, play around with words, and play around with ideas and if worst comes to worst just start writing about the stuff you have no idea about. Try pretending like you know everything about it or have no idea, whatever helps.
