Breaking The Writer's Block | Writing something meaningful every day


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Breaking the writers block!

I used to write every single day. I never got bored, and I want to challenge myself to go back to that time in my life, but this time in a better, more organized way to make it more meaningful. By doing so, I'm being more efficient with my time, adding to the value of delivering some good articles. I have learned that time is the only thing we can never get back and it makes me itchy knowing that I've "wasted" about three weeks without writing anything, while I have enough to write about or to share. It's not the lack of ideas or topics that made me not write for weeks, but health issues and a writers block that followed. I'm trying to make writing as appealing to myself as possible again by setting some new ground rules.

Surroundings matter!

From now on, when writing, I will use our home office. Meaning, no more laptop writing on the diner table or sitting in the sofa. Our home office is there for a reason, and I should use it whenever it's not in use rather than wasting my other time sitting in the wrong (non ergonomically) position and using my (old) laptop that doesn't have a smooth keyboard and 2 big screens to work with. A week ago, while writing my previous post was the first day that I sat down in the office after weeks, and letting my fingers slide over this keyboard is honestly liberating. I felt free again, and the writers block slowly faded while writing down what I had to say. After that, I fell back in the habits from the weeks before, sitting in the living room, and didn't write anything meaningful due to distractions all around mostly.

Lesson learned again, today I will push forward and sit down in the office for at least an hour a day to write. Funny that just a few small changes in a habit can change a mindset!
In my case, it was just a matter of doing it, sitting down in the office and start writing, rather than thinking about that I should probably get back to writing and not act on it. Every day, new ideas and topics pop up in my head, and by every day that passes without me using the day to process the ideas in my head, more clutter appears and I can't help but feel that I lost precious time to write.

The need to write something meaningful

The need to write something meaningful actually comes down to the simple fact that I have a lot of ideas and things I want to complete, while there's only so much time in a day/week/month/year. Time flies and time is limited, and while I should suspect that my ideas are limited as well, the past years have shown me that I keep getting inspired by new things constantly, I feel that I should use this inspiration in one way or the other. It can be as simple as having a conversation about something that inspired me, creating an artwork inspired by something, or in most cases, writing an article about the topic and later on maybe even create a project around the idea. All my projects and ideas are in my head, even those that I never acted upon (yet), I know there's a place and time for each and every one of them, but I also want to document as many things as possible because one day I may not be able to remember them all in my head anymore.

What's the definition of a meaningful article?

To answer this, I should take into account that the word meaningful is defined in different ways by each person. To answer that part, I will answer this from my personal point of view. I think a meaningful article can have any topic you can think of, the key to success in writing a meaningful article lies not within the topic, but within the angle or writing style of the author. Depending on how an article is written, it will add value to someone, making it a meaningful article. There's not a set answer to say what's meaningful as we have different point of views and opinions, which is perfectly fine because this means there's a way to create valuable content by every single one of us. We have to find our personal way to do so..

Personally, I write about a very broad variety of topics since I started writing. I'm not a niche writer, although I know that it's probably a better idea to stick to one or maybe two niches if you're aiming on becoming a famous author. I'm one of these people that gets bored too easily to stick to a few topics and I write about things that keep me busy, things that caught my attention or inspired me in a way. It can be an article about a cool life hack, craft, psychology, TV show or something that happened in my personal life. If you are more of a niche author or more like me is up to you, but either way, there's a place and time for you to add value in your articles.

Does size really matter when it comes to writing?

2416 Words: The Average Word Count of Top Ranked Searches
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This was one of the articles I landed on while looking for some answers about meaningful articles. I don't think it's this simple though, so many factors that also count when taking into account if an article is good or not. There's nothing wrong with short articles that contain no more than 500 words, but it's not really my style and I often lean more towards 1250-2000 words when writing. It does depend on what the article is about though. For example, if you look at my DIY tutorials, I think they definitely can be called valuable content, but they contain very little text. Part of the text is added to the images to make the steps easier to read. I'm actually doing this to add value to the content by doing so. Images are often more valuable in DIY tutorials than text.

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Above is just a very simple example of one of these situations. The online search engine would count a lot less words for this article because a lot of them are included in the images, but this doesn't mean the content is not valuable.

Conclusion

Regarding writing something meaningful, there's a not a set answer on what is and what's not. In the world of writing, you'll have to find your own niche (or niches) to write about and see what fits you best. I have a passion for many topics but this doesn't mean that all of them are topics I feel confident enough to write about. The only way to find out is trying to write about it, maybe even publish it and see if there are readers out there that think your content adds value. If this isn't the case, you can still write about it, but keep the content personal.

My personal experience is that this adds value in another way, namely to your growth as a writer. I have written many articles that have never been published but have added great value to my personal experience and personal growth. No article is a waste of time if you ask me, maybe in a few years, you will read it again and find new inspiration to re-write it or use it as an example in a new publication. Sometimes this doesn't happen, which is fine too. Count these articles as experience.

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Thank you for reading.

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