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Freelance Writing — Finding the Next Story
Or what to do when you hit the wall
It finally happened. I’ve run out of ideas for writing on Medium. This is a good thing. I anticipated this happening sooner, but the moment I was waiting for had arrived.
Why is this a good thing?
I previously shared that I started writing on Medium to exercise my writing skills and to work on positive writing habits. My goal is to eventually write a novel and I am currently ill-prepared to churn out a feature-length work.
I understood going into this that I had a certain amount of ideas already in my head and that would feed the machine for a while. I have reached the end of my backlog and I’ve written the easy stories that I had to write.
Now that I’ve reached this point, I have to work harder and begin to expand my creativity.
Where do we go from here?
Life experiences and personal interests have inspired the subject matter I’ve covered thus far.
One aspect I foolishly did not anticipate of my experience on Medium was the impact of the feedback from my readers. I have received input that will influence where I go from here and I’ve even received a handful of requests for future content (please send…
