How do you stay motivated to write content?

[LetterTwenty7]

Interesting answers. Considering the fact that I am a writer myself, and together with my colleagues I run a small company, I can honestly say it is not easy to stay motivated every single day. That is where discipline comes into play. Again, it depends if you are writing for your own blog - in that case I understand it is a lot different. A few years ago, I tried to run my own blog. Man, it was five times more difficult for me to figure out what to write since I was "my own client", I was ordering articles from myself, and it turned out I am not a good client at all.

One piece of advice I can offer, and it is based on my experience, is to take breaks. I used to do 1 hour ON, 30 minutes OFF, all day long till I finish the work. During the OFF periods I was not sitting in front of the computer, which is the whole point of these breaks. Take a walk, go to the supermarket, play with your pets... Good luck!

 

[Thulf]

Music. Those hour-long ones on YouTube. If luck has it, I get carried away just doing the work for some time, but it only works once at a time after which a break is needed.

Public working spaces. I'd imagine those modern solo public co-working spaces would have a similar effect on motivation and thus productivity. It has that psychological effect on you where you just work because it feels like a natural thing to do there. It would somehow feel wrong to do anything else there. A sort of peer pressure situation and all that - being the odd one that just sits there doing nothing while every1 else is working on their projects in some other corner, etc.

Stuff like that.

I've become so lazy that if I wanted anything done anymore I'm kind of forced to emply these mind tricks on myself...

 

[RegVerifSupport]

I try to work in cafes and public places, it is easier to motivate myself to work than just working from home. In my free time I travel, I try to leave 3-4 times a year, otherwise after a while you will simply hate everything and the desire to work and motivation will disappear. You need something relaxing both during and after work.

When I work during the day I try to take at least 1-2 breaks for 40-60 minutes

 

[CArolineBecks]

Oh, this is my problem too. I am writing a couple articles a day and I really have no more ideas. It is quite exhausting. It was a big pleasure for me to read your ideas here. Thanks!

 

[Faithworld]

So I recently started focusing more on SEO, but I find it hard to stay motivated to write 1-2 articles every single day. It takes quite some time...

How do you guys stay motivated? Besides picking topics you find interesting of course.

You can give sometime off to read something exciting. Writing can be somehow sometimes, especially when one seem to come short of ideas but you need knowledge to keep you motivated.

 

[Kinu Actaz]

This thread is full of motivational ideas for writing. Thanks for sharing stuff like this.

 

[Johnpeterburs]

Foremost thing is you should put yourself into the scenario that what if you are a part of it or you're experiencing it. There is a say that, ideas come from within, then they should be correlated with the existing factos and prepared as a story. Either the cases are describing how to make a delicious omelet or buying a fancy car you wanted..

Close your eyes for a moment, picture the scenario, apply the elemental items, organize it and end it with a conclusion, the same scenes write it up in words.. take a bow and reply your ideas to help each other..

 

[benny vokamoto]

Money will give the best motivation

 

[breakcode]

The real motivation comes when you start seeing the first dollar.
I listen to music to stay motivated.

 

[charles133]

My friend as an advice its to not depend on an income from seo because it takes time and you get demotivated very fast if you dont see results ,I advise you to combine it with other method if you want to make some money fast like youtube ,email marketing ,fb groups etc and in this way you will not be so stresed making an income from seo

 

[Toz]

So I recently started focusing more on SEO, but I find it hard to stay motivated to write 1-2 articles every single day. It takes quite some time...

How do you guys stay motivated? Besides picking topics you find interesting of course.

It only needs to take about 5 - 10 (max) minutes to produce a stellar quality 1000+ word piece of content.

When you can produce content quickly, and if on a topic you enjoy (or see potential with), the motivation easily follows.

 

[DunderMannen]

It only needs to take about 5 - 10 (max) minutes to produce a stellar quality 1000+ word piece of content.

When you can produce content quickly, and if on a topic you enjoy (or see potential with), the motivation easily follows.

Is this an AI reply? THere's no way you can write 1000+ words in 5-10mins, that means a minimum of 100WPM throughout the whole thing. Literally 0 thinking lol

 

[Toz]

Is this an AI reply? THere's no way you can write 1000+ words in 5-10mins, that means a minimum of 100WPM throughout the whole thing. Literally 0 thinking lol

I assure you it's possible.