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5 Things You Can’t Ignore When Creating the “Perfect” Content
“Writing great content is a choice”
For the last month or so, I’ve found it incredibly difficult to come up with ideas for Medium stories. Like, outrageously hard. I’ve been wracking my brain, spending an hour at a time sitting on the couch with my trusty notebook in hand, waiting for ideas to start pouring into my brain from the figurative basin of inspiration. And nothing came. Well, I guess I should admit that there were ideas but, well, none of them felt good enough.
Today, I had a session with my therapist in which I told her about my success in finally cranking out a new blog post after weeks of being unable to rise to the occasion. We discussed how just forcing myself to sit down, pick an idea, and run with it ultimately led to my success in producing new content. I was so proud. Whether or not the story would do as well as the content I’d produced in the past didn’t matter- I was simply happy that I’d produced something after such a drought.
Now, as I’ve found myself sitting for yet another hour at my laptop trying to come up with “the perfect idea for content”, the idea for this very story came to me. In an effort to get all of my thoughts down on paper before they evaporated into the air (something I’m notorious for letting happen), I grabbed my notebook…
