Four Things May Help You To Fight Against “I Don’t Feel Like Writing…”

Taking a break is also necessary

Have you felt “I don’t feel like writing” this week?

I felt a bit last month.

I was more laid back. I was learning something new and trying something new.

But luckily, this month, I’m more up to writing. I’m more up to creating images by myself and keep writing.

These are what I do.

#1 Write what I want to do

I wrote about my New Year’s Resolutions and the updates. If you haven’t done anything about it, you may want to decide whatever you want to try for the rest of this year. It can be a small thing or a big thing.

One of my things was to walk! Yeah, walking exercise, and I wrote about it.

On other occasions, I wrote about my writing challenges. What I challenged were: 1) submitting two articles per day, 2) a 10-day writing challenge, and 3) making an application. I didn’t limit myself only write about WRITING.

#2 Write what I did

What did you do today?

What did you do this month?

If we think about what I’ve been doing for those years … we notice we’ve come through a lot no matter how old we are.

What I wrote these days were photo stories, using photos I took that day or in the past. You may have noticed, but I created some images for my articles. Yeah, I have been creating images for my articles. I’ve mainly used Blender for 3D modeling and exporting them to 2D images like PNG and JPG.

I also wrote what I cooked.

Recent ones were: 1) an easy pancake, and 2) the mushroom sauce. If you are not a creator in this sense, you can take a photo of what you eat and write your deep thought about it.

#3 Write what I’m doing

You can journal anything and convert it into your writings.

In my case, I take notes (kind of) while doing things. Yeah, just in my mind. Recently I wrote a short form about the music I listened to when I was getting exhausted from my walking and which songs revived my walking pace. The idea of it got me when I was doing my walking exercise.

Also, when I read articles on this platform, I sometimes coincidentally bump into them on the same topic either on the same day or over a few days. Then I think about if I want to write about it. That is usually about writing — something like, Write More!

If you are in the museum or a park, you can switch your mind and start picking up what you want to remember and convert those into your articles later. Whether or not those are non-fiction or flash fiction, that’s up to you.

#4 Write what I learned

I’ve learned a lot through or using the Internet. I used many learning tools such as Coursera, Udacity, YouTube, Blender.org, and Unity 3D. Besides those sites, I used Figma and Bubble.io to learn and apply the technical things as I went.

It’s not only about the skills I learned I wrote in my articles.

The inspirational editors got me to join their publications and let me write in response to their writing challenges.

Just name four: Tom Fenske had a great idea of running the publication, The Shortform, accepting short forms. I did the ten-day challenge plus the bonus one!

Mary Chang Story Writer runs the publication, Six Word Photo Story Challenge, for photo stories. She recently finished her first triathlon at age 51.

Ellie Jacobson runs the pub, Flint & Steel, and continuously prompts writers to write. She even pastes a link of music to listen to for the free-writing prompts. She is writing her first novel.

Hollie Petit, Ph.D. loves animals and she runs the pub, Everything Fun, accepting FUN things. It’s such an important thing that she reminds us to look at in our lives, and it’s truly a great writing prompt to write about from time to time. There may be certain pressure or time we all feel from time to time. Is that thing that comes to my mind not good enough to write? Nope.

I can write and edit with Grammarly, or whatever I prefer to use to edit, and try to publish either by myself or submit to the publications I listed above.

I’ve realized I may not gain many views and reads for one article, but I may unexpectedly have many claps for the following article.

I’ve received another e-badge from Medium saying TEN people liked my article. So, that’s the proof.

Yeah, eat your meal and just try it. Take a rest. And try it again.

Summing Up

The four things I write about are: #1 Write what I want to do #2 Write what I did #3 Write what I’m doing #4 Write what I learned I hope this article gives you some ideas to write about, and have a fun writing day!

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