What do you do when you don’t feel like writing anything on your blog or in your newsletter?
Most people will tell you to suck it up and write it anyway, because you made a commitment to your subscribers or followers and they’re expecting to hear from you, and because you don’t want to break the chain.
“Figure it out,“ they tell you. So you scramble to find an idea and force yourself to get it done.
And all is right with the world.
But sometimes, you just can’t. You’re fresh out of ideas, you’re ill or recovering from surgery, you’re slammed with work, or you’re having a sad and need a day off.
Take it. Take the day off.
It’s your blog. Your newsletter. Your channel. The world won’t end if you miss a day.
If you don’t feel like writing or have nothing to say, say nothing. That’s why God created sick days and snow days and bad hair days. If you need some personal time, take it.
Or. . . go to Plan B.
Plan B is to write a very short post. Instead of hundreds of words, you write a paragraph or two.
Yes, you can.
Seth Godin does it. So do many others. Why not you?
Something else. If you still can’t think of anything to say, go ahead and post something someone else said.
You can do that, too.
A passage from a book or article. A pithy quote. Or an intriguing question you saw that’s got you thinking.
Note to self: set up a file and start collecting this kind of stuff.
If you don’t feel well, you can post this “as is” and go back to bed.
But you might find, as I often do, that a short passage or quote you dig out of your notes gets your juices flowing and you find yourself writing a “regular-sized” post.
Many of my posts start that way. I grab something I found interesting and see what I have to say about it.
In fact, that’s how I wrote this post.
