On the site explorewriting.co.uk, I have found some very interesting information that I would like to share with you. It’s about creative writing, how can you handle the pressure situations in which you do not have inspiration to write and how to get that inspiration.
The Blank Page Syndrome. It happens to almost every writer, especially at their beginning. Why? Because they don’t know yet on what niche to establish themselves and they try to write about the X subject, about the Y and so on, and a lot of ideas come into their heads, that eventually no one remains there. You have to focus on writing about what you love, and try to avoid using offensive words about others. Maybe you like to use offensive words and say about certain persons that are wrong dressed or they wear a bad make-up on their face. Try to not do this on your blog or site. Instead, you better write about the book your read last night, the party you went to, the friends that you’ve made there and so on. Your life is so full of subjects, so you could write about yourself.
Yes, you can write about yourself, even if you get up early, go to work and then go back home. This is a story: your story. Make it interesting and attractive for the audience and you could receive more friends than viewers. I mean they will might feel connected to what you do every they, so they will become your loyal readers and in time potential friends. In other words, you can transform your blog into a social network. Your blog could attract your friends, their friends and so on. By allowing them to comment below every post of yours, you will help them to form a sort of community, they will begin to know each other, especially if they are almost the same that comment on your posts.
But what has to do with writing, you may ask. Well, it does. Because every person that comments on your blog could at one moment to transmit you that he would like to know more about that thing. It is no problem that you are not aware of the subject. Get aware and start writing to satsify your reader. By seeing this, he will recommend the blog to others and you will receive more readers that will know that you respect them.
So, your readers could be your start for inspiration when you suffer from the Blank Page Syndrome. Another rule to be creative when you write is to create a special environment for that. How do you imagine the perfect environment? With flowers, white flowers, pink or perhaps only green plants? How many? Do you like to listen to the music while you write? What does inspire you to write? Would you like your pet to be in the room and play with his little ball you gave at Christmas? Or on the contrary, you like the room to be quiet? Some ambiental music wouldn’t hurt, unless you like the environment to be quiet. I like the room quiet, but unfortunately I live in an area where the people always build something, so I have to listen to their noise. Because through my windows, every noise passes towards my ears. Well, let’s just hope I will never lose my inspiration.
But I must admit, I had a few blanks. Once I had it for a whole day. Nothing went good. When I started typing, I thought it would be better to write this way, no it would be better that way and so on. At the end of the day, I have written a single page. This is not productivity. It was a quality page, but a single one. It is hard sometimes to write a certain number of pages and to be qualitative at the same time. Luckily, now we all know what to do to be creative.
I have written another article about what to do when you remain without inspiration when you write on WordPress and I said that you can see about which words you wrote most and then click on those tags to see also what other people write about the same subject. In this way, you will see how others think of that topic and what is their opinion. Your inspiration can come back to you after you read several articles from different blogs. Try to write something different from what you just read, to keep the character of your blog unique.
When you write, you have to be disciplined. If you write a word, and then send an SMS to your friend, then write another word, and after read the SMS that your friend sent back, you will never finish to write a page in time. It is hard to be disciplined when you are 17 and you want to make quick money with your blog. In this situation, you may be tempted to steal other persons’ content. Nothing more wrong. Don’t do that, because the content is protected by the laws of copyright. When you write a news, make sure to say the source from where you have taken that news, that piece of information. It is preferable to provide a link to that Website, or if you do not give the link to the Website, link to the article that inspired you to write that news.
When you write, you have to think as a writer. But how in the world can you do that, when you are a sales agent? You can, if you let your inner writer to come out. I am joking. Every person has the ability of writing, we just need to find out style and write about what we love. An important rule here is to write about what other people is not writing. So, write down your passions and then try to search those words on Google. See how many pages are related to your passions and if you manage to find a niche where you can be included, go for it. Of course, if you say that you like painting and photography, you will find millions of pages, you can try to search for black and white photography or photos presenting nature or flowers or you can present your paintings online, by creating an online exhibition. There are many ways that can be used to promote yourself. You just need to try a bit more.
