Through following my friend Rick Stilwell‘s blog, I found a post from Copyblogger entitled “How to Show Up and Write“.

Ask any writer how to write, and they will tell you, logically enough: Write.

Write every day. Write at the same time. Write for hours. Write for 20 minutes. Just show up and write.

The post goes on to talk about how this advice is too simple, and we hate it because it gives us no excuse to NOT write. I feel a bit like that about this advice.

As you may have noticed, I haven’t been writing as much on this blog over the last few weeks as I used to. This is because I got a job. For 40 hours a week, I’m working on the social media presences of clients at the advertising agency I work for.

I haven’t had as much time to soak in the hours of content I used to. As such, I don’t have as many ideas for content floating around in my head at any given time. As a result, I’ve begun to dread writing posts. It hasn’t come as easily.

But tonight, I’m taking the simple advice to show up and write. Looking forward, I think I’ll set aside some time during my writing sessions to brainstorm future topics.

Photo by Markus Rödder