draft 0129 – the process of coming up with an idea to write about.

Do you know the process of coming up with an idea of what to write about? Is actually amazing. Don’t you think? I definitely think so. 

Like, firstly you would just sit there and try to think about anything that is at the top of your head and yes you mostly get a lot of ideas that way. Then, let’s say that didn’t work, you would try to think about something that happened today or something that has been irritating you recently. 

If that doesn’t work, then trying to think about something that just doesn’t make sense. Then, if not that, then you would just sit there for as long as it takes to get the idea.

Now, once you have some ideas, you would decide which one is the best for the time, topic, reason and most of all if you think you can actually write about it.

Ok, so you have the idea and now you want to write about it. So, you proceed, writing away.

Now, let me give you the example of when it just doesn’t feel right to you. You would be writing but what you decided about writing just doesn’t feel right for that exact moment in time. So, you go back to the ideas you conjured up before.

Trying your best to resonate with those ideas (wishing they do) and they don’t. So, you have to go right back to the beginning, thinking of an idea. One of the most painful parts of writing.

Now, what I just said before, would realistically happen very rarely. I can’t even say rarely. But to me that is the beauty of writing. I feel that trying too hard to think of the most perfect idea is a really bad thing to be doing.

As, doing this will put pressure on yourself to write about something and your writing won’t turn out great. Also, just write about something that you can connect to and that you know you can express in your writing.

Anyway, I just thought this would be a very exciting topic to write about. I will definitely revisit this in the future. 

So, I’ll be back on Friday evening at 10pm.

See you then, drafters. 

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