What do I write about?
A lot of people ask me where do I get ideas to write about daily. For the past couple of days, I had a hard time writing, and a lot of the blogs felt forced. Which led me to introspect how I have been writing in the past and is there a way I can improve.
I started writing these blogs on January 1st, 2019. The initial idea had nothing to do with writing, it was actually about learning something new every day. That was my resolution, that I will try to learn something new about science, history, philosophy, etc., and then write a blog about what I learned. The blogs were just a way to keep track of the resolution.
So naturally, the first few blogs were more like essays you write in school. I would try to find new things to learn from TED talks, youtube videos, or Reddit. I would then make rough notes about the same in a diary and then in the evening make a blog out of it.
Soon, however, I started enjoying the writing part more than the learning part. It was on Day 13 that I wrote this little article -
This was the first time I wrote something just off the cuff, without any preparation. I wrote about how I felt, about the conversations that I was having with myself in my mind. And it felt really great to write it all out, kind of like how you feel after you rant about something to a friend.
After that day, every time I couldn’t find anything new to learn on a day, I just wrote a blog about whatever was on my mind. Though these were few, they were definitely my favorite.
When I started writing again this year, I no longer had any resolution I had to stick to. For once, I was writing just for the sake of writing, I had no other goals. This is why all of these blogs have been impromptu. I don’t think about what I am going to write until the moment I have the blank page in front of me. It’s terrifying, it’s a big risk, and most of the content is shitty. But damn, every once in a while I am able to write a good one, and that feeling of accomplishment is bigger than the combined embarrassment of all the shitty ones.
So what do I write about? I have no idea, it’s something the “tomorrow” version of me has to worry about.