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How to Find Ideas to Write About Every Day

The ideas and processes you need to write every day.

Benjamin Watkins
3 min readMar 14, 2023
Photo by Jessica Delp on Unsplash

Writing every day is challenging, especially if you have no idea what to write about.

Building a process for finding ideas helps. The best writers have processes that force them to write.

  • Stephen King used to write 2,000 words a day
  • Margaret Atwood typically writes from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
  • Earnest Hemingway wrote from 6:00 am until after lunch

Remember, your best work as a writer isn’t just determined by talent, it’s determined by how much work you put into it.

Are you willing to write every day? Are you willing to write when you don’t feel like it? Are you willing to write through rejection?

You need more than motivation. You need commitment, a process that holds you accountable.

How to Build the Perfect Writing Process

The perfect writing process gives you endless ideas.

This is my process for finding ideas:

  • 3Ps — Personal. Process. Polarizing. A personal story about your experiments and achievements that can inspire others. A process for achieving a specific result like a how-to…

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Benjamin Watkins
Benjamin Watkins

Written by Benjamin Watkins

Founder of ThisIsCopy.com | Health Tech Copywriter | Copywriting examples at https://laviebenrose.substack.com/. Dad of five adventurous kids..

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