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Monday, April 6, 2015

Breaking through some writer's block

When a man wants to write and develop a blog, one of the biggest problems a man might face is creating the content. Enter writers block. You know what it feels like. You have to write something but nothing is coming to you. It is easy to sit at a blank sheet or monitor for 30 minutes or more.

This is one form of writer's block, having no idea what to write about. However, this isn't the only form of writers block. It is quite possible to have the opposite problem. Sometimes, you might be inundated by a whole mess of ideas and you aren't sure what to write about. You go about your day and every so often, you juggle between thinking about writing about at least 5 different topics.

For some reason, this can create a bottleneck effect. It will feel like a traffic jam or trying to shove a square peg through a round hole. Each one of these topics will feel interesting to write about but something will prevent you from actually writing it.

Maybe you want to write about Transformers 3, but you realize you don't have any real point to make. Maybe you want to write about repairing car engines but you realize you have no idea how to actually do that. You might know only one thing but nothing else. Maybe you want to write a book review but you realize you don't have enough patience in order to write the whole review. Maybe you have a really good idea or topic but you forget it within a few hours. Or maybe you have a great idea but you realize it is really dumb half an hour later.

I learned one of the most useful techniques to help break writers block from Roosh V. One of his earliest videos was from way back in 2008 called How to Become an Expert Blogger Like Me. He starts out with the video with a simple word document listing a whole list of topics to write about.

This was a great technique to remember all the good ideas you had throughout the day or even as far back as a few weeks or months ago. Seeing all the topics also gives you the strategic advantage of picking the topic which will be the easiest to write an article about and complete.

Using a simple document can help a writer write content regularly. Roosh also emphasized the very important technique of putting pictures of ceiling cat into your posts.

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