What do you do when you’ve had an extended break from blogging and find that it’s nearly impossible to write? i found myself asking just this question at the beginning of this month. After almost 45 days of being under intense personal pressure, all I wanted to do was sit in front of my TV watching BBC America and wondering if my house had gotten dirty enough to be featured on one of their programs. It was close, let me tell you.
When I finally did manage to get out of my slump I found that I’d lost the habit of writing. it was nearly impossible for me to post even once a day, let alone the 8 to 12 times a day I had been posting before the world went sideways on me. The stress of the initial problem was gone, but I’d been out of the saddle for so long that I’d forgotten how to ride.
It isn’t easy to get back into the swing of things if you’ve been forced to take a long hiatus. Writing on demand is both a talent and a discipline. It took a long time to get to the point where writing that much in a day was “normal”, it doesn’t take long for your mind to rebel against the intensity of it all. but no writing means no money, so what’s a boy to do?
Simple. Start slowly and build back up. One post every day is a good start. Once that becomes habit again it is far simpler to add another post per day. It isn’t very long before you’ll find that you just keep writing as time is available. Writing = content. Content = Visits. Visits = $$.
If you’re having the same problem, just sit and write something today. Write anything. The subject doesn’t matter, the end result doesn’t matter. What matters is that you get back in and get your mind back in gear. the rest will follow.
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Great advice! Good to see you back.