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Are You Sure You Don’t Feel Like Writing Today?

Here is an astonishing truth that I discovered

There are days when I just don’t feel like writing. I’m sure you might have had such days too.

You may be surprised by what I discovered:

It’s not always the writing that we disfavor but rather the things and processes associated with it.

Typing May Be The Culprit

These days most of us prefer typing as an alternative to writing on our notebooks. The reason for such is countless. The computer combined with the internet makes our writing idiot-proof. If we install Grammarly, it eliminates all issues related to spelling and grammar almost instantly.

But we sometimes have a lack of enthusiasm for typing and mistakenly generalize it as the boredom of writing.

Last summer, one morning I was just not in the mood for writing. Call it a blessing in disguise, I was also having problems with my keyboard. The response time per input was unbearable.

I just picked my book (The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara) and my notepad, sat on the couch by the balcony — just to give myself a break from writing that day.

Some thoughts struck my mind while reading and I decided to jot them down on my notepad. As a writer, you already know that once there is a flow, you just keep on writing. Not for a single moment I decided to interrupt my pen.

I wrote that day but on my notepad. That was unusual because I always preferred typing.

I tried this a few more times over the next 365 days whenever I had no mood for writing. It worked on most days. It might just work for you as well.

In case it doesn’t work:

Your Desk Setup Maybe The Real Offender

In case you are like me, you must be scrupulously maintaining the place where you sit to write — clean and minimalistic.

But believe me, when you rest your butt at the same place every single day to write, your mind will start diverting you to have a change in the scenario for yourself and your buttocks. You might again mistake it for “no mood for writing” phase.

Despite how good your place looks, your mind will get used to it pretty soon.

After I discovered the “typing” issue, I always looked for things that may have an impact on my mood. Guess what, this was another “may sound common, yet not solved” issue for me.

So if you ever face such a situation, before you declare “no mood for writing day”, I would urge you to look for things and the processes directly or indirectly involved in your writing.

So,

Are you sure you don’t feel like writing today?

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See you again next time. :)

Regards.