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THE SECRET OF THE STEERING WHEEL EFFECT
One More Way to Never Run Out of Ideas and Write Happily Ever After
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When I’ve started writing on Medium, a big part of my reading here was dedicated to “How to” articles. Some about the writing process, but many about shortcuts. How to make money fast (in my defense, the pandemic left me without a job so I truly need to find a sustaining way to earn the money for a decent living), how to optimize my content in order to rank higher on search engines, how to repurpose my articles, and so on.
But, and this is a big BUT, focusing on how needy I am made me feel insecure about writing. I forgot that writing is a process and I wasted a big amount of energy worrying about how I am not growing fast enough, what to do in order to write articles that are going viral, and so on.
As anybody knows, worrying does not solve anything. Worse is diminishing our focus, blocking our creativity. I found myself not knowing what to write about.
This for me is highly improbable. At any blessed moment, day or night, if you ask me “tell me something you are passionate about” the danger is I will not stop talking.
