Nurturing your recorded ideas

Ali Khan
1 min readJul 29, 2024

--

Photo by Thomas Martinsen on Unsplash

You hit ‘Publish’ to get your daily post/article out — day 5 of your ‘daily writing’ habit. You’ve been maintaining an inventory of writing ideas, just like that writing guru on X/Twitter suggested.

Fantastic! The next day, however, you find yourself staring at a one-liner idea on a blank page and feeling stuck. Oh, so that’s what writer’s block is, isn’t it? Feeling a bit stuck?

It is as important to maintain an ‘ideas inventory’ as it is to nurture and grow it. This is how it works:

  1. Write an idea down as soon as you get it. Don’t rely on your memory. At this stage, your idea might be just a single line.
  2. The next day, review that idea and try re-writing or re-framing it. It might grow into 2 to 3 lines.
  3. On the next review, do the same and aim to expand it to half a page.
  4. Next time, rewrite and add two key ingredients to your piece: relevant context and examples.

Continue nurturing your ideas until they are ready to be published. Nurturing ideas should be a consistent background habit to your daily writing routine.

--

--

Ali Khan

Techie. Infovore. Forever Curious. Building Things. Here to share a few of my deliberate perspectives.