Taking an idea from a car thought to a blog post

Seth Godin has said repeatedly that “writer’s block is a myth”. He said it’s really more like “I have a fear of bad writing”, as he explains in this short video:

However, I tend to disagree. When I sit down to write, I’m not afraid of bad writing, but I often just don’t know where to start. For me, the key is having some ideas ready go to, and I usually do. For most of my posts, they go through three phases.

Capture

Many of my ideas pop up while I’m driving. Perhaps it’s from a podcast that I’m listening to, or maybe my mind is wandering and idea shows up. Either way, I want to capture it for later. In my case, I just use Google Keep for that. I tell my car “Hey Google, take a note” and then leave the note with my voice. Case in point, the idea for this post came in the car, and here is the Keep note that was waiting for me when I got home.

The other big source of my post ideas is from reading, which I unpacked quite a bit here.

Processing