I have no shortage of ideas, but I struggle to write them down #HowToKeepWritingOnNote

I never run out of ideas, but sometimes I just can't summon the energy to write them, finish them, and publish them.

Ideas are overflowing

1. When I go out, I get two or three ideas.

2. Even when I don't go out, my ideas increase.

3. Even if I do nothing, ideas appear in my daily life and come to me.
Things like incidents that happened to my family or stories I heard from friends.

Because of all this, for now, I have 195 articles in my drafts.

Apart from these, there are also thingsthat haven't even reached the draft stage yet.

4. I store the prose for the ideas I come up with in a notepad app.

5. I am also in the middle of migrating articles from two blogs I left abandoned.

6. There are also many ideas that can be migrated from past diaries stored in Evernote.

I've reached the usage limit on Evernote, so I plan to move them soon.
I think I have at least 1,100 diary entries just from up to 2024. While moving them, I want to turn the interesting ones into articles and share them.

An example of an Evernote diary entry

However, even if I have the plans, if I don't have the 'energy' to write the article or the 'momentum', it won't take shape.

I can't get to the point of finishing and publishing.

What do I do in times like that?

⭐︎When I don't have the energy to type text

① Use voice input to save spoken words as text

② Accumulate those and gradually bring each article to completion

③ When an idea comes up, write it down before forgetting and keep building on it

This is something I do often.

⭐︎Take a break from note

Or rather, take a break from your phone for a few hours.
Do a mini digital detox.

It really clears your head, doesn't it?
A clear head is very important.

⭐︎Post a short note and take it easy

Post a short note and have a few days where you take it easy.

Doing this can sometimes make the motivation to write come back all at once.
Creation requires energy, you know.
It seems that taking a proper break helps your strength return.

⭐︎Don't try to make every article perfect

Don't put 100% effort into every single article.
I intentionally hold back to about 70% sometimes.

However, paid articles are an exception!
I put about 120% effort into paid articles around 1000 yen.

⭐︎'Ideas are seeds, seeds are ideas'

I have many drafts sitting in storage, but some never seem to wake up. There are drafts that wake up when the time is right, and those are the ones that eventually become ready for publication.

If you force a sleepy draft (article) to wake up and publish it,
you end up regretting it, thinking, 'That was a bit lackluster.'

Are ideas living things too?
Perhaps articles (information) contain something like an 'autonomous dynamic.'

In that sense, draft articles are probably like "seeds."
You pour water and sunlight (the effort of writing) on them and wait for them to sprout.

"Ideas are seeds," "Seeds are asleep"
That turned into a nice palindrome.

If I were to express it in a single panel

★ Is this a mysterious phenomenon unique to me?

In my case, a mysterious phenomenon occurs where I become completely unable to write drafts once I have five articles ready to be published.

I wonder if there's some complex psychology or energy exchange working in the background for this too???