What To Do About The Missing Writing Ideas From Your Life
Ideas have been missing from my life.
If I were to ask you what’s missing from your life, what would you say?
After going through a few posts online, I found that people say something along the following lines:
1. A will to stay motivated
2. Become healthier
3. Have a robust bank account
4. Cultivate proper social skills
5. Sleep sufficiently
6. Party more
7. Become more spiritual/religious
8. Spend more time with my family and friends
9. Have artistic hobbies
10. A nice job
Upon reviewing these answers, I realised that what is missing from our life is oftentimes something within our grasp. All we need to do is acknowledge that the gap exists and then take steps to fill it.
So, firstly acknowledge that ideas have been missing from your life. I understand that there’s a war against original ideas these days. The “yes we can” and “you can do it to” have mostly turned into “Oh no you didn’t just say that, <insert hate speech>.”
Don’t let this cyber bullying and cyber shaming get to you.
If you have some unique insight to offer on commonly known topics, go ahead, write it up. Knowledge is anyway considered to be a double-edged sword that cuts and heals simultaneously.
The knowledge you have acquired and your perspective on things will transform you as a writer. Ignorance might be blissful, but it doesn’t pay up in the long run. As an old adage goes, “To a worm in a horseradish, the horseradish is its world.” Don’t become one of those worms that only live in a horseradish; eat all the things that are available. So secondly, consume different types of content. Don’t just read things you like, read all sorts of things. Have a reaction to what you read and then write about it.
Acquired factual knowledge, when combined with cognition ends up forming amazing new ideas. Whatever you’ll write, will make perfect sense. This sense will enable you to want to crawl out of the horseradish and go into the turnip.
Take this guy for instance.
Potholes torment every city in the developing world.
No amount of protests could get to those.
All it took to fix the holes on one particular road was this creative young man who drew attention to this pothole riffled road by visualising walking on the road as if he were walking on the lunar surface.
The ideas are scattered around everywhere. All you need to do is look around, observe, contemplate, and then get writing.
