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Inspiration Has Job Security
By
Stephan Miller
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The deadline for your ezine
was yesterday. You have nothing to say. The last week you
have spent preparing for a vacation, working overtime at
your day job, fighting with your girlfriend. Just fill in
the blank. Oh wait, you don't have to. Somehow there is
always an excuse to fill that blank. So, what do you do
now?
You can choose one of the easiest ways out. Send out an
e-mail that you are sick and the ezine will be out next
week at the normal time. But this doesn't feel right,
because you are lying to yourself. You could grab the
first free article on the net you find to throw in there
and just use the same links you did last week and have the
thing out in less than an hour. No, you pride yourself on
writing at least a part of your newsletter every week and
putting together a well-rounded issue, one that readers
save. There are plenty of examples of junk ezines on the
net and you don't want yours to rank with those. After
all, you worked hard for your subscribers and
disappointing them is not an option.
What we are talking about here is writer's block.
Something you think is reserved for poets and other
"literary artists." An internet marketer can't
have writer's block. But somehow, after those few months
or days of flow, the ideas you have carefully saved and
knew were great when you wrote them down have deteriorated
in your notebook. Who could have known that they had a
shelf life? And why is it that the more free time you
have, the easier it is to put off writing that new
article?
There is a cure for writer's block. It is simple and you
can start today. It happens to be the latest breakthrough
in science and 9 out of 10 medical doctors now recommend
it. First, take a piece of paper. Second get yourself a
pen, a disposable will do. Now, start writing. With that
first dark line on the white paper, you have been
miraculously cured. All you have to do now is to keep that
pen moving down the paper. If you have to be Jack
Nicholson in "The Shining" and write "All
work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." over and
over, do it. At least you are cured and eventually your
mind will become bored and you will reach that spot again.
You know that spot. It's the spot where you wish ViaVoice
actually worked, because your fingers can't keep up with
your mind.
Inspiration is for wannabes. Inspiration has job security.
It can pick and choose it's opportunities. With millions
of hobbyist writers waiting for it to fill out an
application, do you really think inspiration will answer
your small classified ad that reads, "Inspiration
needed to write next article for my newsletter." If
you started all of this as a hobby, go ahead and wait. You
have time. For those of us who take this seriously, we
have to take a more active approach.
That starts by writing every single day. Going to your
computer or getting out your notebook every day and
writing something, anything and seeing it through to the
end. You have no boss to tell you to do this. You have no
reason except to put words on paper and improve slowly day
by day and eventually make it habit. In order to teach
your mind that you aren't playing here, that this isn't a
game, that you are not going to tease yourself. You want
results. Eventually, if not every day, at least a great
majority of them, you will reach that magic spot where you
don't want to stop, where you know you have an idea on the
run and it is not going to get away from you this time.
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