How to Write on Days You Just Don’t Want to…

We have all had those days when there is just nothing to say or is there no way to get the words from your head onto paper. Unfortunately, we still have deadlines and goals to meet.

So how do you writing on a day you just can’t seem to get started?

Write something awful.

Just get started with whatever is on your mind and see where it takes you.

A stream of consciousness probably won’t win you any awards, but it might organize your thoughts a bit. You might end up with enough good points to turn it into an article.

Let go of your standards if it gets you started.

Create an outline.

Tell yourself that you don’t actually need to write anything, you can just make an outline. Pick a topic and think of ideas for subtopics. This can be less intimidating that sitting down to write an entire piece.

Often, you’ll find that once the main ideas for an article are outlined, it’s easy to add in the explanations that fill in the rest of the article.

Give yourself an artificially low word count limit.

Tell yourself that you need to explore the entire topic in 200 words. Oddly, feeling constrained by a very small number of words feels manageable and usually…