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Article Ideas Can Spring From Anywhere

posted October 21, 2009 - 4:03pm
Article Ideas Can Spring From Anywhere

Making money online by writing content can be difficult at times.  The amount of time I spend staring at the computer screen can seem endless.  Writer's block is very real and very frustrating at times.  That is why it is important that when the creative juices start to flow, you let them run wild.  You never know where an idea will come from nor where it will take you.

A great example happened to me just the other morning.  The alarm clock had gone off, and it was time to get up but it was still quite dark outside.  My wife moaned that she didn't want to get out of bed, and for some reason the idea struck me that I should write about seasonal affective disorder and light therapy.  I have no idea why that happened, but it did.  And the creative juices started to flow.

I had to save my writing for later that day, but 2 hours later after some research and writing, I had three articles -- one for HubPages, one for InfoBarrel, and one for eHow.  Not to mention this article that I am writing about the experience.  It seems just crazy to me that writing would work that way, but it does.  So don't get discouraged.  If you have writer's block, simply look around and relax.  The right idea might just seem to come out of the middle of nowhere.



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Me too.

I have also been suffering from writer's block frequently.  It is sometimes best just to give it a rest.  I have found that I will be able to work in spurts where I can write 4 and 5 articles in a day.  Other times, nothing comes to mind for 2 and 3 days at a time.

Omg! I've been having

Omg! I've been having writer's block a lot lately. Now, I just try to think of ideas/topics to write about during class time (and write the topics down as they come to me). =p

Christina Crowe (www.saladsticks.com)

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