It's almost the end of summer, and I have the credentials for my benefit these holidays. As the end of the holidays approach, I wonder what I have to show for the summer tan obviously different, and loads of incomplete articles adorning my computer.
Having nothing to write can be exasperating. But they have plenty to do and not do it out of laziness or lack of interest is another story. Articles are months old who have not seen the light of day. Ah, if only I could complete them. But procrastination and laziness stand in the way. I said it was the heat, but with temperatures going down again, I'm not even left with that excuse.
I divorced my articles written apparently in the middle who sit there waiting for some remote folder in my computer. Somehow I never manage to finish something if I leave it halfway. And this time is no different. I ended up open files, read their contents, closing with a mental note that they needed to be finished and went back to my Need for Speed racing adventure.
After an endless round of mindless car racing, I decided it was time to return to work. Having nothing to write, I thought I'd try my hand in a diary. Writers are always told that the maintenance of magazines spark your creativity, but somehow I never thought I'd be writing in one. I always wondered why a writer would waste his valuable time writing an article that when he could be earning money, writing those words in an article or story.
So, I started an official mission, simply by opening my word processor and write the first thing that came to mind. Incidentally, I started rambling about what I wanted to achieve, but with a drastic case of writer's block that has swept over me in recent days, my ambitions had been reduced to dust. Before I knew it, I had written two thousand words, just because I could write about and how he was playing havoc with my spirit.
I hate to admit it, but the truth is - I was wrong. A newspaper is a waste of time of a writer. This is a learning process. When a professional computer sits down to learn a new programming language, is not wasting his time. Is being prepared for situations in which its programming skills may be helpful. Similarly, a newspaper may be the resource a writer digs when she's at a loss for ideas and can not find anything to write about. Gives the writer practice needs every single day, and creates a very desired in his writing.
The day I started writing in my journal, was the day my month-long block finally came to an end. And as I wrote, I found my mind racing faster than my fingers could type. Soon, I was not writing just my day, but my holidays, my last semester and the last time the family went on holiday together. Accidents kept springing to my mind and I was caught in the adrenalin. I was writing!
I needed a spark to my creativity, and the magazine did just that. He had given me the push I needed to start, and once I was writing, ideas and words came to me like they never left my side.
Journals give the writer the three things she needs most: practice, motivation and ideas.
Now, every day before starting to write my articles or stories, I simply pen a page in my diary. If I can not write on paper, I kept a diary about my computer as well. Not only do you get a starting point for my day, I feel more energized and ready to write pages and pages of prose.
Magazines can also be a large stock of ideas. When you think you've suddenly does not respond to ideas around you or can not find a character to fit into your stories, peek into your diary and find something priceless there. The trip to the lake last summer or the fight with your neighbor could also become an accident in your next bestseller.
Magazines are not necessarily the diaries in which to record your thoughts and personal feelings. They can be lists of goals, pet care tips, or simply freewriting that you do every day before coming to work. Should not even be focused on a topic - you may introduce random thoughts whenever and wherever you like. In writing a diary, there are no rules, just write what you want.
At the time of writing this, I think four magazines to satisfy my mind several. I do not write in every day, but do not try to write at least one every day. In the days that I have too much work to do, I spark my creativity by writing in all four. Who knew that a magazine would become my best friend?
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