‘5 Ways to Power Your ‘Creativity Pump’ for a Content Gusher’ – Entrepreneur
Josh Earl says, “When I was a teenager, a late-summer lightning strike splintered the telephone pole that served our rural Ohio farmhouse. The power was out for three days in the sweltering August heat, and pretty quickly we ran out of water.
The problem wasn’t our water supply — the well under our house was deep and swollen thanks to the thunderstorm that knocked out our electricity. But our plumbing system relied on an electric pump to pressurize the water and that pump needed electricity to run. The water was just feet from our pipes, but that well might as well have been bone dry for all the good it did us.
Do you ever feel like your “content ideas” well is dry?
When you first start writing about a new topic, you have plenty of ideas. You have this initial rush of enthusiasm and a bunch of ideas start spilling out.
The more you write, the less interesting your topic seems. Before long you feel like you’ve said all you have to say. You’re “written out.” You feel dry and empty. When you’re writing about the same topic day in and day out, you start to lose your childlike curiosity”.
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