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Take A Break From Thinking Through Reading (A Writer's Struggles)
***September 4, 2021*** Perhaps, the most difficult job of a writer is to think of a good topic to write about. Writing an article per day can drain our brain, isn't it? Especially if we have been writing for too long. Well, even the professional writers are experiencing the same thing since we are only human and our brain also needs rest just like our body. This writer's block is really my most enemy when it comes to writing. It suddenly occupies my brain and blocking every synapse in it and thoughts are being stuck and can't be expressed. At 8 in the morning, I got free time to write. But my mind was blank and my fingers were just tapping my phone, switching from noisecash to here. Feeding my brain with information from different posts that might help me construct my own story. Unfortunately, it seemed to be useless because my mind wasn't working well.
https://tenor.com/search/writers-block-gifs Even the tips I wrote about unblocking writer's block aren't working at all times. Or maybe I am not just working on them properly, lol. ***Related article:*** ***What's Holding You Back? Unblock Your Writer's Block*** https://read.cash/@Jane/whats-holding-you-back-unblock-your-writers-block-9907db70 I read back this article I wrote two months ago to check the reason for this current writer's block. As I have mentioned in my article, some reasons why we are experiencing writer's block includes: **Lack of sleep** **You Are Pressuring Yourself Because Of Your Goal** **You Have Too Many Distractions** **You Are Burn Out** The main culprit that I can see here is the lack of sleep. It's been months now that I am consistently sleeping at 11:30 or 12 midnight. And even if I close my eyes earlier, my mind is still processing so many thoughts that seem to be unstoppable. Thus, giving me difficulty in sleeping. I did not set any goal to avoid self-pressure and future disappointment. But things are preoccupying my thoughts, such as the lockdown in my country, the OFW (Overseas Filipino Worker) ban, my uncertain schedule of departure, and the possible extension of my visa due to some circumstances. I do have finished drafted articles here but my day seems to be incomplete if I don't write one. Perhaps, this also putting pressure on me as well as on many writers here who have been used to posting articles daily. Even if we want to take a break, our body doesn't allow us to and our minds are thinking about the missing opportunity once we fail to write one. Why not? Because the BCH price is dropping, thus, a great opportunity to accumulate more. And I am certain we have the same mindset here. Too many distractions are affecting our minds as well. And I am certain again that one of them is noisecash, lol. Rather than taking a break, our minds always thought of making some noise and interact with other users there. And readcash notifications are waving as well. Comments and replies need to be replied to, subscriptions' articles need to be read, and so on and forth. So our minds are being blocked with so many distractions that we can't think of anything to write. Along with our daily activities in the real world, things easily burn out our bodies. Back on track. The only way to unblock this writer's block is to take a break from thinking of a good topic to write and get better sleep, unfortunately, I can't take nap, lol. And as I have said in my article,
So with this, I took a break from thinking about good topics to write about and just continued reading instead.
But while reading different articles and posts, my mind started to compose new thoughts again, lol. See? Seems like our minds don't want to sleep just like the crypto space. And here I am tapping my phone and writing this article. Because even if I close my eyes, it's all useless as my mind is so awake. And since I don't want to waste my time sleeping awake (lol), I opted to tap my phone again and just let my mind and fingers write anything. What's the catch here? I'm effortlessly writing this content without pressuring my mind too much about a certain topic to write. I just let my fingers tap and work along with my mind. No certain topic, just express anything that comes to my mind until I completely compose this article. And this part is already a four-minute read and I will continue to write more to make at least a six-minute read article. Back to my article about writer's block. There are many ways to do if you are out of topic to write, that include: **Keep fueling your mind with words and knowledge, Explore The Digital Space Through Reading** **Express Your Thoughts Through Free Writing** **Join Prompt Series** **Convert Your Hobbies To Stories** **Be Versatile** We are sometimes running out of ideas to write especially that we are writing daily articles for a long time. But I'm running out of prompts as well and I don't have time to do my hobbies. So expressing my thoughts and reading are the remaining choices I have. And that's being versatile! Reading is the most important aspect when it comes to this matter because through reading, we are gaining new thoughts and ideas and learning new information as well that we can apply to our own writing. Just like what I did, I just read my old article and my mind started to compose new thoughts. Although others might find this article nonsense, but I call this ***free writing*** and expressing my thoughts. Informative at the same time since I'm sharing some insights regarding causes of writer's block, how to unblock it, and other ways to stay on track of writing. And while writing this, I'm also trying to read other articles, post, and comment on noisecash, switching from one platform to another. I am not sure though if this effective, but I'm doing three things at the same time and I guess it's working pretty well. That's multi-tasking! This reminds me of @Just1dood article about an efficient way of reading and commenting more, and I guess I need to add writing here, lol. He suggested opening a new window for reading and another window for commenting. Some users don't really read the content well and just dropping comments irrelevant to the content. While some are scanning the content and just picking the keywords so they can comment on something relevant to the content. Oops, I'm sometimes doing this if my time is limited and I want to read more articles. But if I find the article interesting, I make sure to read the content word per word. https://read.cash/@Just1dood/dear-readers-how-can-you-read-comment-more-efficiently-075e8047 And every time I take a break from writing to do something else, my concentration is being destructed. This reminds me of the article of @Eylz2021 about the dream and achieve it wherein she mentioned to just ***keep going*** despite the obstacles and hurdles that will come our way. https://read.cash/@Eylz2021/dream-and-achieve-it-aa97bc5a Writing is like achieving our goals in life. In writing, our goal is to finish our article before the day ends but destruction and writer's block can hinder us in achieving it. However, once we surpass that challenge, the positive outcome and feedback from the readers are what make our goal in writing worth fulfilling. We may experience struggles in writing due to some circumstances. However, our goal will always motivate us to push ourselves to continue writing. And any writer's block can be unblocked if we have the determination to keep going. From having writer's block, I was able to write a seven-minute read article, lol. There's only one way to unblock it, read and keep going. Let your fingers work along with your mind. Express your thoughts and convert them into words. I'll end this content here and I hope you find something sensible here 😅. Thanks for reading.
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The crypto space hardly sleep so why should our mind sleep? 🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣 There are so many good distractions to be honest and while flipping through wallets to wallets to check your assets and how they are faring, one can spend the whole day on read cash or noise cash and before you know it, the day is over. When I want to write and think of what to write, I take a walk sometimes...I pace around the house and it's a bit easier for me because I get inspired by just anything... Might be a movie, might be a song, might be the sound of the rain or even where I intend to go. Living in Nigeria is a huge motivation to write on its own 🤣🤣😂😂🤣. I totally agree with you, we need to stop thinking too much and allow ourselves to breathe. We can just let it flow and also learn how to relax our minds as well as our body.
I need to experience wandering in Nigeria .. I might create more topics there 🤣 that maybe the reason why Nigerians here are do active and full of thoughts..
🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣 I tell you. There are so many things to inspire you here... The good and the bad 🤣🤣😂
Another interesting and helpful piece. There are times when we do struggle to think of what to write about and yes, to me, reading and listening to audios help a lot. Sometimes if nothing comes out of these, I go outside, take a walk and relax my mind. It helps.
Ako minsan lng mka listen to music kc not allowed.. Kya basa2 nlng ako minsan. Walking outside can help too..madami inspiration makikita mo na pwd mo isulat
Hehe yes, although sometimes lumalaban din ang isip, blank lang :D
Heheh ang galing! May topic pa ring nabuo. Hehe! There are times talaga na iisip tayo na ano ba magandang topic to the point na di mo naman matatapos kasi super blangko ka talaga. Meron ding super dami ng ideas pero parang pag masusulat ka na you feel empty na di mo malaman. Right! Need lang ng break saglit tapos itreat ang sarili with the things or food na magpapasaya. Let's not be too hard on ourselves kasi baka maningil naman 'to ng wala sa oras. Hehe Stay healthy ate 😘
Thanks.. Dami ko nga titles dto pro hndi mkabuo ng content 🤣 dami iniisip kc..
Haha relate na relate is me ate jane kaya yung time na nagchachange ako ng time ng publish ginagawa ko na lang yung opportunidad para makapag pahinga tapos sa noise nalang muna. Doon kasi nakakaenjoy mag comment and magtingin ng mga posts. Tapos basa basa nalang din muna dito ng artikols isa sa napansin ko eh kahit nagbabasa ka lang at nagsesend ka ng tips e dadalawin kaparin ni bot. Kaya kahit di ako nagpublish my kita parin po ako .
Upto 3days mabibigyan ang isang article dai.. Kya kht hndi magpublish matitipan tlga. Hehe..
Same ate, paramg lutang utak ko ngayon at diko alam isusulat ko. Kaya nagbabasa-basa nala g muna ako,ndiko rin alam kung nakatulpg bako o ano. Diko maintindihan HAHAHAHA
Ako hndi naman lutang..destructed lng haha..preoccupied kc..kya nagkaka mental block
Raos. Nice one hahah. Ultimong comment kaya minsan nawawalan ako ng sasabihin ahhaha. Sometimes I move away from the laptop or both noise and read for a while. I do something else and then go back. To typing.
Ako naman umpisahan pagsulat kpg may time. Then babalil balikan hanggang matpus. Kada break magbabasa at comment..then make noise..
The Gif in in this article is from one of my favourite TV series: New girl 😍 I experienced writer's block a lot when I was still new in this community and just focused on writing articles and submitting. But now that I have learnt to be interacting with other people here and reading about their lives and experiences, I never run out of ideas for an article. Sometimes I even get overloaded with ideas and I become picky on a topic to write. I know on the long run I will be burned out from all these, but for now I'm getting inspiration and ideas from everyone here.
Same..overloaded with ideas to the point that you don't know how to express them all in writing or which one to write first, until you forget the others, lol 🤣
😂 so true, I do forget about some of them
I can remember a time I had in college when an editor wanted me to write an article too. That was an abrupt order. I have been doodling doodling the entire time and I ended up a poem which tells about how unlucky I am to not be able to find a good topic to write because my editor forced me to do so. In the end, he told me, 'see you have an idea. you come up with a poem that tells your frustration about being forced to write.'
Doodling can help too as part of taking a break from thinking.. It's working for some writers..
Sakin more than one month ko nang nararanasan yang writer's block na yan. 😂
Hello there welcome back 🤣🤣
I always have this feeling 😅
I think I am also lacking some sleep too and I have stopped Writing my articles at night to get prepared for the next day as I used to because ideas do not flow in. I wanted to make this article I just published and I couldn't get any idea on the prompt word, even after reading different articles about beauty. I had to sleep last night and when I woke up this morning, I opened Readcash again and suddenly, ideas came on and immediately started allowing my fingers to do the typing on my phone. Also, whenever I don't have anything to write, I just freewrite whatever comes into my mind.
We really need to take a break sometimes and let our minds breathe...sometimes it's giving me a headache lol..
What an interesting article to start with! Unblocking the writter block , so many of us have experience this kind of situation while you'll sit down for hours to think about what to write but nothing is forth coming. I've experienced this so many times and I cannot help but to sleep in other to relax my brain. Reading books and too can help us to discover what we want to write, it's not easy to write a good and outstanding article, one have to have a deep thought about, and I will say that you end up coming out with a beautiful post. Learned something from this.
Thanks for passing by. Books and music .. A great escape when our minds are exhausted
I have experienced this a lot and I would say fighting it over is one thing that won’t come so easy but we just have to. Distraction is one main problem to writers block. And you are right about the way we read articles Interesting ones would never go unchecked Thanks for the well detailed article And good to see you come up with this after taking a war against writers block on yourself
Haha. Those thoughts became an article..
Sincerely. Maybe someday I would be like you 😝 hahaha
I once sat down and starting thinking if i can manage to maintain a post per day. I went through your page and some other one year users and wondered how you guys do it. Sometimes when typing i feel like I've written something similar before. I once deleted 3 drafts because they look alike. What i do now is to write when I'm in the mood and save them as draft ahead of days when i experience the writers block and also for the 5 days I'll be busy with exams.
I do have drafted articles but I don't find them interesting lol. That's a good idea.. At least you have reserves.
Na blablock din ako minsan kahit walang kwenta article ko e 🤧😂
Haha. Kaw pla si cristy
Opo🤧
distractions talaga mostly yung kalaban ko kaya nawawalan ng idea eh hhhaha
If you are facing writer's block just write on the "writer's block" topic... A ninja technique lol 😅😂😂😂
Yesterday you posted about this on noise and I commented that the post could well serve as a good introduction to an article on the topic. I have learned how to deal with it in a simple, and that's to write about it and express my challenges, is a blog on its own and serves as a good tonic to turn a redundant brain working again.
Writer's block is the clear and present danger every writer faces irrespective of whether they are amateurs or experienced. There's no one size that fits them all remedy to battling it. Each person has to go on a journey of self discovery to see what works for himself or herself.
I really needed to see this. Writer's block is really unsettling but thanks for the tips on things to write about when we are out of topics to write on.
Reading talaga yung best way to get more ideas e. Kaso minsan nakakatamad talaga magbasa din, kaya what we feel nalang muna ang isusulat. Pero prinapractice ko na din na wag tamarin magbasa kasi gusto ko din sana everyday may masulat.
I agree with coming up with a topic is very hard especially as you said when most of us here aim to write every day. When I sit down in front of the white page and the cursor is blinking, well that's when nothing is coming. When I am not thinking anything at all several things or even topics pop into my mind, that potentially can be turned into an article. Once you have the topic is fine the rest will come as you write.
Jane, besides reading, you can also get inspiration through watching videos or just chatting with friends. I have a problem in that as soon as I lie down to read/watch videos, I fall asleep, because I am just too tired. What time do you wake up? I only get to sleep at 1am or past it most nights and have to wake up at 6+ or even earlier, so I'm always struggling with lack of sleep, even though I do take an afternoon nap.
I always experience that sleeping awake haha, when you closed your eyes early but your mind is continue to think and think about random things. Ang galing nyo po napahaba nyo tong article nyo and it gives a lesson pa to us.
Ramdam kita dyan sa kahit pikit kana maaga para makatulog pero yung utak mo nagsusulat pa rin 😂😂 kulang na nga ako pahinga dahil yung utak ko ayaw magpahinga grabi, sipag mag isip haha
Have been thinking why I can't get something to write but after reading your article now it makes me understand that have been stressed and my brain need to rest so that it can function back
I also dk that, kapag wala ako maisip na topic, basa basa lang muna then eventually yun ideas eh magflow na lang, hehe
I get writer's block all the time. So here I am again finding another diversion. Reading and writing at cash instead of finishing my books hahhahahah... Procrastination is real po...
>I do have finished drafted articles here but my day seems to be incomplete if I don't write one. Parang katulad ngayon ate, wala akong article na nagawa ngayon ate pero ang dami sa drafts.
Writer's block stinks. But yes, it does happen to everyone, and comes more often that I wish it would. But it also always comes to an end, and when it does, it's like a flood gate has opened up. I too find reading can help to "break the spell," and get the mind thinking again. The best thing is to just let writer's block run its course and not to try to force things. I think it is just the brains way of rekindling the flame and juicing up the next round of works.
Basta ako pag nauubusan makinig lamg ng music keri na. Marami akong napupulot na topic sa musics ko ay huehuw.
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