What I Do About Writer’s Block, How Innovation Happens, and the Struggle of Writing

I’ve got something like writer’s block today. So I’m writing about having that.

I know what I want to write about. I want to write about how innovation happens, and things you can do to think in innovative ways. I want to say that innovation happens most often from combining ideas, not from creating something new.

I want to talk about how building a memory palace like i wrote about in my last blog makes innovation much easier. It does that because much more knowledge is available right at your fingertips, so grabbing ideas to combine becomes much easier.

I would write a little about the Esty shop I made, and how I marketed the dragons I sold. I’d write about how the social media site imgur.com loves stories, and how a book I read told me that people buy things they can see already fitting into their lives, and how I made an advertisement doing just that.

I’d write about these things, but I can barely bring myself to peck out the basics onto my keyboard.

I’ve learned today about concise writing. I’m not doing a very good job of it here, and yet the paragraphs above could be one of the most concise articles I’ve written. I presented the main points of what I want to get across. But it feels lifeless.

I don’t know how to write both concisely, and with heart. And yet the feedback I got today on an article suggested that I don’t write with heart yet either. I feel like I don’t know what I’m doing.

I’ve written a lot in my life. I write for a living after all. At least for now.

I’ve broken all the rules about writing to give flair. To play jazz with words. Apparently I’ve been playing the wrong notes the whole time.

That’s probably not entirely true, but it is frustrating to have written a good amount, to realize I’ve still got a long ways to go.

Ah well. No sense in letting it get me down any longer. Time to practice.