Writing, Among Other Things

Author: NeoBluePanther (Page 17 of 47)

5 Places to Look for Ideas to Write

When you are writing regularly, you are bound to run short of ideas. It may seem that your mind is full of ideas, but when you sit down to write you can’t hold on to a single one. Not unlike trying to catch the little fishes in a stream  – you see so many of them, but every time you dip your hand in the water to catch one, the hand comes out empty.

Not being able to write when one wants to can be quite frustrating, and can also make a dent in one’s self-belief. Therefore, it is in the best interests of the writer, if he can write whenever he chooses, and to do that a writer should have a repository of ideas to draw upon in times of need.

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Writing – Hobby, or Profession?

In a scene from a movie, a character asks his friend about what he did for a living. The friend replies, “I write.”

“That is alright, but what do you do to earn your bread and butter?” asks the first character again.

“I Write!” replies the exasperated friend.

The scene was meant to raise a few laughs, and it did so successfully.

On a serious note, however, the scene represents the truth for thousands of people who write. A large section of people who write are not sure whether it is a hobby for them, or is it something that they want to do for a living. This confusion is the biggest reason for writer’s block, and writer’s burnout.

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The Self Fulfilling Prophecy

According to Wikipedia, a self fulfilling prophecy is a “prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior.”

In other words, it means that something happens, just because it was prophesied to be.

This is true about human behaviour too. If you expect others to do good, it is quite likely that they will. On the other hand, if you expect others to do evil, it is equally likely that they will.

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When things aren’t going your way…

Every once in a while, you will find that things aren’t happening as you planned them. You try hard to make things better, but the harder you try, the worse things become, or so it seems. There comes a point, eventually, when you start feeling that there is nothing you can do to make things better. In other words, it seems like you are pushing against a brick wall, that just won’t move.

How is one supposed to act in situations like that?

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