What to post!!? Distancing Yourself from the Anxiety of Writer’s Block - 3 Tips!

Dayleeo here, handing you the vaulter’s pole of tips to help you glide over your writer's block like the blogging Olympian you are!

I get it, sometimes life doesn’t throw you a day that’s particularly bloggable. You feel stuck, like you’ve said everything you want to, you’re not sure what to talk about but you want to take part! Sometimes you’re surrounded by the same 4 walls you always are. You don’t have the luxury of changing your space and switching things up.

Sometimes it’s just a grind, and if you’re anything like me, the draft editor you use is SO PAINFULLY BLANK that it feels like it’s mocking you.

What a jerk.

1. Figure out WHY you want to write.

Is it just because the price of Steem is up??

Yep I went there. It’s ok! We’ve all been there, making some extra coin was the main selling point that got us all here right? Hopefully you’ve come to fall in love with the community of folks here and the coin isn’t the only thing you’re in it for. But DAT PRICE THO! - Be honest with yourself! Really, it’s ok!

Maybe it’s the fomo of having a partner or Steemit friends who are crushing it, maybe it’s your own personal work ethic about wanting to post daily or maybe you’re new and you’re frustrated that your posts aren’t making what you thought they would right away.

I’m going to say it again, it’s really ALL OK! Whatever reason brought you to your machine today to write something, it doesn’t matter. What matters is what you make of that effort. Once you know why you want to write you can remove the stress and performance anxiety of doing it “RIGHT”. Wright?? WRITNG RIGHT?!! right.

2. Don’t Write

I mean, it really is OK! (I’m going to say that a lot in this post) After finishing my 30 day yoga challenge I didn’t write for 2 days I took the time to recharge, and enjoy the holiday and just decompress. Deep down I felt AWFUL about it. I felt like I had let myself down, or I was some kind of slacker or bum.

(Which is so silly by the way, if you’re feeling like that, quit it right now, go do something nice for yourself, circle back to tip 1 and come back to me after you feel like you love yourself as much as you deserve to… go ahead, I’ll wait…)

One of the coolest things about Steemit is that we don’t just get rewards for posting, but for commenting as well!

If you’re stumped and not feeling like you can post, start surfing some tags that interest you! Find some new Steemians outside your regular circle of view and don’t be stingy with that follow button. Leave THOUGHTFUL and GENUINE comments. Really read and react critically to other’s content no matter how minnow-ey or whale-ey they are.

Not only for the rewards, but for your own headstate, I’d wager that if you spend enough time seeing what’s out there in the Steemiverse it might inspire your next post or next 10 posts! If you can’t post, take the time to expand that beautiful brain of yours!

3. Write about not having anything to write!

So you’ve gotten all external with it, you’ve surfed the Steemiverse high and low for inspiration and you’ve come up with nothing (which I think is truly impossible, but let’s continue for agreement’s sake).

Maybe it’s time to turn inward! For your convenience I’ve provided a list of reasons you may be experiencing writer’s block and various post solutions…

• Not feeling well? - Write about your tips, for beating a cold, or the story about how you caught your cold standing in the rain waiting for Rick Astley tickets, or your favorite shows to binge watch when you’re having a sick day!
• Feeling burnt out by your day job? - Write a fiction adventure tale about a hero (you) overcoming a mighty, awful, and smelly dragon (your boss).
• Just wanna play video games instead? - Yeah I get it, those headshots aren’t going to fire themselves. Write ABOUT your favorite game or hobby that’s keeping you from writing. Then go get those headshots fam!!
• Hungry? - Eat then blog.
• Tired? - Sleep then blog.
• Both of your hands broken? - First of all congratulations for even being able to access this post! Now, go download a voice dictation app and blog.

Are you a newly sentient AI trying to find out what it means to be human and you’re not sure where you fit in in this digital storytelling ether?

Please reference the works of Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Brooker, Sufjan Steevens, Depeche Mode, Tim Burton and the entire film catalog of Jean Claude VanDamme. I’m sure that’ll give you a good place to start. ;)

If ALL ELSE FAILS:

Write a blog post helping others with their writer’s block. Might as well turn your stuck-ness into someone else’s breakthrough right?

The important thing is to be accepting of wherever you’re at in this current moment. However you find yourself at your machine today, know that you are enough you’re incredibly blessed to be here, alive with an internet connection in the age of the blockchain and you’re going to be just fine.

I hope at the very least this post gave you a little laugh, take a deep breath. Steem is up, life is good.

<3
Dayleeo

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