How To Turn Negative Interaction into Positive Idea Generation for Writers

I posted about reaching one year of daily writing yesterday.

I’m very grateful for all the congratulations I received but I was surprised by one negative comment, it related to how I was headed to burn out.

The very idea seemed completely off base given the relative time and effort that’s actually required for publishing atomic essays daily (i.e. it’s not all that much). Although as is typical for most of us any negative event disproportionately outweighs any number of positive events it did highlight an interesting effect of the daily writing.

The more you write the more you write.

The more ideas you have the more ideas you are able to generate.

This particular example of saying that I will face burnout, it gave me an opportunity today to decide what to write about. So the following are just some of the examples that came to me and will remain as writing prompts and options:

• I could write about my own systems to prevent burnout.
• Dive deeper into my systems specifically on the difference between campaign quests and guild quests.
• Motivation through larger purpose.
• How to set up breaks and appropriate energy levels in the day.
• Longer term balancing of workloads.
• Writing about negativity bias.
• Examples of when I felt close to burnout and how I dealt with it.
• Imagining if I do face burnout I could write about that hypothetical experience.
• Post burnout recovery plans and dry running them.
• This very essay itself touching on idea generation.

There were more, but this is what a year of writing does, anything becomes a writing prompt and ideas beget ideas, even negative experiences.

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