If you’re stuck for what to write then…
Nothing beats having no ideas than… writing.
Yeah, yeah… I know how that sounds. Chicken and egg problem and all. 🐔🥚
But…
When you start writing and working with an idea… it kinda sparks your brain in some special (almost magical) way… to just come up with new ideas.
I’m reasonably happy about that…
Because it’s one reason I’m just about never stuck for what to write in my daily emails.
The big exception to this is when I’m tired.
Because when I’m tired… I’m stuck for everything, not just daily emails.
But if I sit down in the morning… heck!…
I sometimes want to keep writing tomorrow’s… and the next day’s… and the next day’s.
I have to stop myself. And get on to client work and whatnot.
And those ideas don’t just stop when I stop writing. They tend to pop into my brain at all hours.
At the moment I have a lineup of 232 ideas for upcoming emails.
But those aren’t just simple notes about a topic to write about.
Nope…
These are already curated ideas. Ones that I’ve done a bit of research on. Or I’ve copy and pasted something from what I’ve written on social media. Or something someone else said that I want to riff on.
So they have meat on them already. And are highly likely to end up in your inbox one day. 😁
Then there’s another 500+ basic ideas (I don’t quite know the figure) that I dumped out of a previous information management system. As well as another huge pile of ideas in another system I’ve not looked at for a while. Oh… and then there’s my digital inbox. There must be another hundred or more email ideas in there.
A problem (if you can call it that) is that this week I’ll add in another 5-10 curated ideas. From stuff that happens during the week. So I just never get through that backlog of hundreds.
But it’s great having some options to pick from…
Because some days I just don’t feel like writing on a particular topic.
And then there’s the day’s when I’ll sit down and write about what’s just happened today. Or what’s been going on recently.
So the pile of ideas remains untouched.
But, know what?
When I started daily email I had all of zero ideas. No kidding!
I just knew I wanted to start. And I had some vague thoughts about what I wanted to talk about.
In the couple of days before starting, I made sure I had a handful of emails on hand from a previous email list of mine. So I could send them if needed. That was my backstop.
The early emails were just seat-of-the-pants every day.
But the more I emailed. And the more I thought about who I was emailing (that’s you today, NAME). The ideas kinda came.
And now I have this mountain of them I’ll probably never get through.
Of course it takes effort to write. And slog on through those slow email days.
But the more you do it, the easier it gets. And more enjoyable. And less stressful.
And having piles of ideas that start turning up when you least expect them is a beautiful thing.
Might be something in all that for you. Or not.
Whatever the case… if you ever get the hankering for starting an email list. I highly recommend the system I use every day, BerserkerMail.
Nanu, Nanu,
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Chris Milham