You Don’t Need ‘Be Calm Quotes’ When You Are Writing, You Need Writing Prompts

Here are 4 writing prompts that will cure your writer’s block.

I have nothing else to write.

It is your inner saboteur speaking, ladies and gentlemen, and it starts with a hardly audible voice until the voice becomes so loud it wakes you up at night, and you end up with a cold sweat.

I know exactly what writer’s block is, but before it got me, the fear of it was too much that — I quit writing.

I am different now, not because I am overconfident but because ideas can come everywhere, even online dating sites.

As I am writing this story, I am on Day 5 of my “insane writing challenge on steroids” — Write 100 stories in 10 days.

Writing Prompts

Sometimes, the hardest part of writing is getting started. It can be hard to get your fingers moving across a keyboard, to put one word in front of another.

If you’re struggling with writer’s block, there are prompts and exercises you can try that will help you push past it — and get writing again!

Here are 4 prompts to get you started.

1. Who is the most interesting person you know?

It is, working with people who are smarter than you is a fantastic way to learn. That’s why it’s essential to surround yourself with people who are more intelligent than you.

An intelligent network is a fuel that helps you become more creative because it can enhance your ability to draw connections, evaluate alternative hypotheses, and come up with new ideas.

Taking the time to read productivity and inspiration sites and articles will give you new ideas for your next article or the next piece.

Don’t get left behind when new technology comes out to “catch up.” Instead, grab ideas; how can you recycle old ideas to help you figure out your next article or piece?

“Quite often, goals can feel unattainable when you set them. ”

Keep your goals small so that your motivation and energy for reaching your dreams won’t be diminished. You want to make them as realistic and attainable as possible.

I often do when trying to write a specific goal to write one word that has meaning. This helps me to stay on track.

For example, if someone asked me: “How can I lose 20 pounds?” I would write “Lose weight.”

If I added that word to my goal, my motivation would increase, and I would go out and do it.

Sometimes we get too wrapped up in working on the goals that we forget that they are all about us and that we are the boss of our lives.

2. What are three things you’re looking forward to in the next month?

We always say, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.”

So, it would help if you always had some goals or plans that you’re working towards in your business.

For example, when I first launched my business, I had three goals:

1. First, to have a good-looking website.
2. To get our website ranking in a relevant category on Google and;
3. To drive traffic to our website from different places.

This was important because we knew having a good-looking and SEO-friendly website was important, but we also had to think about other ways our business could bring the most benefit.

We wanted people to come to our website. So, we’re not just running a blog that people go to — we want people to come from all kinds of sources and find us because of our blog.

And, we enjoyed our traffic to come from different places and sources.

We started connecting these three big goals with a gradient. So, for example, we wrote about SEO and our business strategy on a different, higher-level plan because that’s what people go to when looking for more information.

So we wrote that first. And after we had done enough research to answer our SEO question, we wrote a paragraph about how people search for information and how we tested our business on Google.

Then we wrote about our online stores because we had store openings and people were looking for those products, too, which would also direct people to our website.

And so, we linked the goals and sprinkled those throughout the article to keep people moving.

Now, you can write about anything you plan to do in your business or career.

Your writing can be about your company culture, lifestyle, contributors, how people interact with each other, or any part of your business.

We can honestly observe two situations that make writing much more exciting and easy.

3. What is your favorite memory from childhood?

My favorite memory from childhood is from when I was eight years old. My family and I were going on vacation, and we were driving through a forest at night.

We came across a deer standing in the middle of the road, looking at us curiously. The deer froze and didn’t move until we got close enough to scare it off the road.

As we approached it, it crouched on the side of the road, waiting for the right moment to escape. I asked my mom what it was. “It’s a buck,” she said.

It was the first time I identified a creature in the dark. That’s when I began to realize I could see just about anything by studying its behavior.

I learned not to be afraid of deer, as they pose no threat to humans, at least not when you’re far enough away.

In the years that followed, I learned to study different animals for inspiration, as some wildlife photographers snap pictures of deer from the side of the road at night to make them stand out in the image.

It’s true. If you freeze a deer in the headlights of your car, it just looks like another giant black rodent in the dark. That’s what that deer was, and looking back at the photo now brings me to my first word: stare.

A lot of our experiences and fears revolve around “what if.”

Unfortunately, regardless of how carefully we prepare for a possible event, many bad things can happen, and that’s okay.

At worst, you will recognize that you were wrong — and learn that later in life.

The same is true of writing.

The writing was my first writing project, and I have the scars to prove it. So when I write something that I know won’t please anyone, it hurts.

Sure, when that writing project didn’t turn out how I expected, it also taught me a lot about the value of creativity.

4. How do you want to be remembered in 10 years? 20 years? 50 years? 100 years?

One of the best ways to push yourself forward in your career is to keep looking ahead and keep thinking about how you want to be remembered in the future.

I always say that what I will be remembered by are my words. I believe it to be true.

I can write stories about how I imagine the future in the next 10, 20, 50, and 100 years.

As the years pass by, I will be growing old, and there are stories that I can already think of. “Who will I become in the future?” — is one of the stories I can already think of.

Conclusion

If writing feels hard right now, this probably isn’t the experience you had in mind when you started, but you can recast the scene in your head with these prompts.

Maybe you have a better experience than I do. If, on the other hand, your skillset is more in line with writers who were struggling early in their journey, these prompts may help you keep going.

Let the words cling to you like a maelstrom. Show the reader what’s inside, using only your pen and page. Pull from your most profound aspects and the most intense emotions.

Writer’s block may or may not happen, but thinking of what can or can’t happen can stop you from writing.

Stay calm, but you don’t need to place your mind with mindless “be calm quotes,” what you need are writing prompts, and they are everywhere. Even your old stories can be a new place to look for new stories, not copies but new angles. As I tell myself all the time,

“Go back and forth.”