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Has Your Enthusiasm for Writing Wavered Lately?

Well, there’s no need to worry, here’s why.

Ryan J
3 min readAug 27, 2019
Photo by Matthew T Rader on Unsplash

Creating a consistent stream of content can be challenging.

In order to keep posting to your profile/site/wherever you like to share your work, you must be constantly on the lookout for new ideas.

And, let’s be honest, it can all get a bit much from time to time.

You may even question why you’re doing it in the first place.

But even though there are times of stress and frustration — in abundance— you keep pushing on.

You don’t always have to love what you create.

This is a phase that I’ve been experiencing over the past few weeks —ever since taking a three-week-long vacation, I guess I enjoyed holiday mode a little too much.

It’s not that there is a shortage of ideas — my drafts list has over 200 of them sitting there waiting to be explored— it’s more that when I start to expand on them it feels more like a burden than a pleasure.

The beginning is fine, I have no issue getting up and running, but a few paragraphs in and that’s when my mind begins to wander — in fact, it started on the last paragraph of this piece.

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Ryan J
Ryan J

Written by Ryan J

Writer from Northern Ireland 🍀 | Based in Sydney 🦘 | Exploring life, ideas, and stories worth telling.

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