Conquering those days where you don’t “feel” like writing by facing these 5 realizations

Writ­ing — it’s such a com­plex thing. Whether we real­ize it or not, there are always hard­ships when it comes to writ­ing an excel­lent piece of mate­r­ial. Some­times, that per­se­ver­ance and love we have for writ­ing starts to fade away. It may hit some quicker than oth­ers, but I guar­an­tee that if you blog you will face many days where you just don’t want to write.

You and I both know that it’s not a good feel­ing to let your blog go with­out any con­tent for a num­ber of days. Even 1 day with­out con­tent, you will start to see your blog dimin­ish­ing. You will notice a lot of dif­fer­ences because that one day you let your blog go with­out new con­tent is the day where you (even with­out know­ing it) plan to let your blog go with­out new con­tent for other days.

This isn’t another “fight­ing writer’s block” post because we have already read those kinds of arti­cles on every other blog in this niche (that includes my “ulti­mate fight­ing writer’s block tip”). But writer’s block can be a rea­son why you don’t feel like writ­ing on your blog (which I will explain later on in this post).

I have just recently got over not feel­ing like writ­ing. I don’t know what it was, but I was just not in a mood to write. I love to write, espe­cially when other peo­ple read what I have to say. I couldn’t fig­ure out why I didn’t want to write at the time when I love writ­ing so much. After think­ing about it, I can now under­stand what I needed to glue into my head. I want to reflect on those thoughts in this post, so hope­fully you can come out of or pre­vent going through what I did.

Real­iza­tion 1:

Remem­ber your orig­i­nal goal when you started up the blog. Do you think you will achieve it by not writing?

You hope­fully set a goal for your­self when you started your blog. It could be some­thing like get­ting an “x” num­ber of vis­i­tors per month, mak­ing $xxx a month, aver­ag­ing an “x” num­ber of com­ments per post, etc. etc. Set­ting a goal and meet­ing it is an amaz­ing feel­ing. There’s this over­whelm­ing sense of accom­plish­ment you get when you finally reach your goal.

What you need to really under­stand is that you will not accom­plish every goal. But don’t let that thought bring you down because you can look at it in a dif­fer­ent way. Don’t say “I failed” when you don’t make as much as you wanted in a week. Just tell your­self “This idea didn’t fail. I just suc­ceeded in find­ing out what doesn’t work”. Sounds a hell of a lot bet­ter now, doesn’t it?

But in all seri­ous­ness, just because you can’t achieve one thing doesn’t mean there aren’t other things you can work towards. Just remem­ber what moti­vated you to start your blog for exam­ple. Start­ing your blog is prob­a­bly one of the most dif­fi­cult things to do (if you really try). It must have taken a lot of moti­va­tion for you to do it, didn’t it? Just think about the same stuff you did in the begin­ning and I’m sure you will real­ize how not writ­ing today will harm your chances of achiev­ing your goals.

Your blog is head­ing into a bad direc­tion You’re not achiev­ing your goals. Accept it.

I think this is harsh, but all too true. Accept that you don’t feel like writ­ing. Accept that you won’t be very suc­cess­ful as a blog­ger because of this. Some­times, if you can come to an under­stand­ing of things then you can turn your prob­lem around.

Tak­ing steps back­wards can make you see the true poten­tial of your blog as you are los­ing every­thing you have gained and earned. It sucks to lose things you have worked hard for. All because you didn’t feel like writing.

What am I talk­ing about by “tak­ing steps backwards?”

• Loss of read­er­ship. No one likes a blog that doesn’t con­sis­tently add new con­tent to it. You will lose their RSS sub­scrip­tion, their com­ments, every­thing they can give you as a reader will go.
• Say “bye-bye” to your author­ity. It’s all about author­ity on the blo­gospe­here. Go to the most trusted blog with the best con­tent on it and lis­ten to what they say. By not post­ing con­tent, there is noth­ing to lis­ten to.

While you should really do your best to not let your blog go in the wrong direc­tion, you can’t always avoid it. But I guar­an­tee you that when you stop writ­ing, you will see your blog change drastically.

Real­iza­tion 2:

Find what it is that brought you into this slum, and work your way out of it.

There are plenty of rea­sons behind why you may not feel like writ­ing. Emo­tions for exam­ple are strong, and some emo­tions like grief, sad­ness, over excite­ment, etc. are the emo­tions that tend to take over and cause of sorts of chaos.

Find out what is plagu­ing you emo­tion­ally and work at fix­ing it. There’s no guar­an­tees that you can fix any­thing since emo­tions are so pow­er­ful. But you have to do your best to come out of what­ever you’re feel­ing that is caus­ing you to not write.

Of course, it’s not always emo­tions that are hold­ing you back from writ­ing. I know for a fact it’s not. Another extremely com­mon issue with a lot of peo­ple is they don’t want to write, or just don’t know what to write about. Which brings me to my next point…

Real­iza­tion 3:

It turns out you have writer’s block

A ter­ri­ble diag­no­sis for a writer. Hav­ing writer’s block is a writer’s worst fear (at least, it’s mine). Lucky for you, Janith and I have dealt with Writer’s block so much that we have writ­ten plenty of arti­cles here to help you fight it and not let it ruin you.

• 10 ways to find post inspi­ra­tion with­out even leav­ing your blog
• How to Brain­storm for Coher­ent Ideas?
• Clear Mind Pro­duces Clear Content
• How to get ‘Bloom­ing Con­tent’ on those ‘Gloomy Days’?
• Cre­at­ing more appeal­ing posts in 4 sim­ple steps
• How to Per­fect Your Con­tent by ‘Redrafts & Edits’
• The ULTIMATE “fight­ing writer’s block” tip

As seri­ous as writer’s block is, the one thing you need to keep sep­a­rate in your head is the idea that “I really can’t write about any­thing because I don’t know what I’m  talk­ing about” and “I can’t write any­thing today (writer’s block)”. There’s a dif­fer­ent between the two. Igno­rance vs. Lack of Moti­va­tion. Real­ize that you do have writer’s block if you think you do, read up on our sug­ges­tions (and oth­ers) and see where you go from there.

Real­iza­tion 4:

You’re a blog­ger. You love to write. Cut the crap and blog!

You blog because you want to write; to help peo­ple (hope­fully). For what­ever rea­son it is that is pre­vent­ing you to not be able to write on your blog, find it and solve it. As I have said before, it may not be easy to do. But trust me, there are not many kinds of sat­is­fac­tions in the blo­gos­phere like pub­lish­ing a brand new blog post on your blog. Plus, the com­ments that come with it. Don’t you miss that?

Real­iza­tion 5:

You have an audi­ence to entertain!

You have a com­mu­nity of read­ers to enter­tain. No mat­ter how big or how small it is — they need your advice and insights. Remem­ber, these are the peo­ple who made your blog be what it is today. All of your traffic/revenue/discussion is because of them. They don’t slack on YOUR blog, so why should you slack on YOUR blog?

Ques­tions For You

So what do you think about not feel­ing like writ­ing on your blog? Do you think some of the stuf I said in this arti­cle were a bit on the extreme side, or do you agree with me that you should take every post seri­ously on your blog? And how bad do you think it really could be if you didn’t pub­lish a post accord­ingly to your post routine?

Thanks for read­ing, I hope you found this infor­ma­tive and use­ful.

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