When your words are bouncing around in your head, but nothing coherent will make it's way out of your fingers and onto the keyboard. You don't know what you have to say.
I guess you could say it's a mild form of a writers bock. And when that happens we turn to lists. There are tons of lists out there, 101 things to blog about, to 1001 things to blog about.
But, still, your thoughts are bouncing around your head. It doesn't matter how long and hard you look at these lists.
Or worse, you start writing about a topic from one of those lists, and your writing is dry, uninspiring, and uninteresting. So much so, you delete the page/post. That's the spot where I've been lately.
And then, today, I came across this quote I had written down a while ago:
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.- Barbara Kingsolver
I love this.
Think about the posts we really like, the one's that resonate with us. It's not that the writers/bloggers wrote about a particular topic, it's because these bloggers had something to say about that topic. That's what set's them apart.
Do you know what you have to say?
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