Monday, July 30, 2012

Writing For Money, Writing For Fun and Writing Without Inspiration pt 1

Now just to update you since I jumped off this boat and disappeared into oblivion for two years, I am currently at a job where a big part of it is writing. Not very difficult writing, but sometimes it can seem tough as the outcome has to satisfy all kinds of people. My previous job was editing so that was nearly a no-brainer.

Even before work set in, during school and uni people like us write for:

-Fun!
-Assignments, exams (because we have to)
-to document something personal
-to try your luck to see how far you could go!

This blog was for the last reason. Not really having any expectation was alright, but because of that I think I also forgot about it. Oops...

Nowadays you read news about bloggers / YouTube personalities being extremely rich and famous. Well there's a lot of others who haven't found that luck and I'm one of them. It would be nice though to have this as a source of income.

Enough rambling. I am here to talk about writing without inspiration / ideas.

Sometimes you are forced to write. I am experiencing that everyday now as I cover events etc. Not that I don't want to, but I don't want to come up with something boring that no one will read. I need something INTERESTING.

While I have Googled this phrase and read some interesting articles, I am still experiencing a period of nothingness when I'm supposed to be writing. I have deadlines too you know.

So what can we do now?

All I ask of you is;
1. What do you expect to find out when you read an article?

2. What makes you read an article?

3. What about it makes you remember it? (In a good way of course!)

In finding out these I hope to be able to satisfy everyone with the words that come through my fingers!

...to be continued (hopefully!)

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