Overcoming writer's block
People sometimes ask how I manage to write so much content — blog articles, these ‘Two-Hundred-Word-Tuesday’ posts etc.
If I’m honest, the answer is, with difficulty.
Coming up with interesting and engaging perspectives on volunteer management for fifty-two articles a year is a challenge.
Even more so when you’ve been doing it for years (I’ve been blogging regularly since 2011) and have already covered so many of those angles!
It’s tempting to give in to the idea of writer’s block. I don’t believe in it, though. As someone wiser than me once said, writer’s block stems from the behaviour of not writing.
Seth Godin once wrote:
“People with writer’s block don’t have a problem typing. They have a problem living with bad writing, imperfect writing, writing that might expose something that they fear. The best way to deal with it is to write.”
When I find I’m struggling to write something, I write about the fact that I am struggling to write something.
And guess what? The act of writing helps.
More often than not, something valuable comes from that.
Whether you think it’s valuable or not is another matter, because guess how this article came about?