Want to know how to generate more ideas, and never run out of ideas, of what to write about next?

 

For starters, be more observant:

There is a lot of info out there, staring you in the face, that you can write about. 

• What’s happening around you? Watch what people do and say. Can you exaggerate their actions and behaviour, like comedians do? Or turn their characters and dramas into fascinating stories. 
• Be more perceptive to what you’re reading. Learn to pick out and pinpoint basic facts, the real hidden gems, within the jumble of words. If you start to `read-between-the-lines’, you may come across a catchy statement that gets you mind thinking and going down whole new possibilities of thought. 
• Carefully watch videos and podcasts and make notes. Consider how other people do things. Is there something that you didn’t know before, that turns a key in your brain? Perhaps you could use one of the principles and let your mind spiral into new concept avenues. 
• Listen to smart people. People who are successful or become rich through using particular methods and principles that got them where they are today. What are they doing that you’re not doing? How could you apply it to your circumstances and use it to your own advantage? 

Nothing happens unless something is started!

Go for it… 

Take a topic or a catchy statement. Then go to you computer and type in everything that comes to your mind. 

Let your thoughts flow out. Don’t worry, you can adjust and correct things later. The point is to do something, anything at this point. 

Once something is typed in and is growing, you have something to work with.  

1. Because you’ve had to split up and re-arrange facts according their particular categorized paragraphs, you start to see a trend or trail of thought occurring. 
2. You can see now that the article is made up of more than one supporting fact. Are they really related? 
3. If your article is too BIG (more than about  650 words) and some of the subject matter has gone off at a tangent, you know that, that fact should really be split off and use in another blog altogether. 
4. It’s a fact that most people are lazy and concentration doesn’t last for very long. People generally can only remember one main topic and perhaps not more than three supporting facts. 
5. And if the article gets to about 2000 worded article, you could then perhaps split it into 4-6 separate blogs, each having its own theme topic. 
6. Remember there is always another angle to a concept. Make it your own. Add your own experiences to it. Told a different way, can mean totally something else. 
7. Knowing that, take each topic and give it more oomph, power and clout. Refurbish it with more interesting sagacity. Add exciting subheadings and bold fonts where necessary. Make it sensational and give it more life and sizzle.  

Always on the ready:

If you love life, people and Nature, you will always find something to write about. 

• Always have your camera on hand. You never know when a good opportunity for a picture-story is staring you in the face. 
• Have an inquiring mind. There is sure to be something you can write about. Take time to do research, check up on all the topics you like or wish to know more about. 
• Make notes of your research and file them in a folder. When you run out of ideas, you can always do revision and peruse through them, and come up with a different perspective, having learnt so much in between. 

Consider the fact:

Inventors invent things by taking a few old known facts, re-arrange and adjust them, and also add new theories of their own to the mix, in order to come up with brilliant new inventions!