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ON WRITING WELL
How To Write 500 Articles
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Are you struggling for ideas or finding time to write? Maybe you are new to Medium and trying to get your mojo?
One of the reasons I started writing on Medium was to keep a New Year’s resolution commitment to write every day. When I considered writing a blog, I wondered what I would write about. I keep my highly personal issues close at hand, but I figured the writing would be a good exercise, even when I didn’t have anything to say.
I had friends who joined Medium and were “having fun with it.” As they discussed the platform, lightbulbs went off in my mind. Maybe I could do this in my spare time? I was already working 55 hours a week, but didn’t want a blog to become a slog.
Instead of being strapped for ideas, I have a list of ideas. I can’t wait to get to them all. Because I write about culture, entertainment, and news items, it seems there’s always something piquing my interest to discuss. And I find that flushing out society’s important topics has led me in directions I didn’t imagine.
Because sometimes I don’t know what I think about a topic until I start writing about it. Soon, I’ll discover more I want to say about it. An article turns into a series.
