What do you do when you still have lots of ideas to write about, but you don’t want to write about any of them? Is the passion gone? Let’s find out what to do about this.

There are times when your mind is just tired of the same old thing. I’ve been one to always write down ideas, jotting a few words or sentences here and there when I’ve had an idea for a story or a blog post, or even a novel. These all sounded like great ideas at the time. Maybe if I’d sat down right at that moment and taken the time to work them out, these ideas would have sprouted from the tiny seed into a completed, fleshed out work, a whole story, article, or novel. Even a first draft.

Unfortunately, these seeds can’t always be watered at the same time they’re collected. We have lives that we have to live in the meantime. Sometimes, we just don’t have that spark. All we have is this cold, hard little seed of something - something that could grow into a great mustard tree someday under the right conditions, but for now, must remain a tiny seed, only raw potential and hopes and dreams, nothing more.

What do you do? One thing you can do is to just write about it. Write about what you’re thinking or feeling. No, you don’t have to divulge your half-formed idea before it’s ready to be unleashed on the world. Write about your process, or lack thereof. Try to find the reason why you can’t write about all these great ideas you have jotted down on dirty scraps of paper and stained napkins. If you can dig deeply into your own reasons and share those with your readers, maybe you can help them to avoid the same problems.

Take the time to wonder aloud. Type the words to yourself as a sort of airing of the inner monologue. Sometimes a little sunlight will help to dispell the dusty cobwebs in the corners, or at least show them for what they are. It can be healthy and cathartic to share some of these things with your readers. Be careful, though. These sharings can end up revealing much about your inner self. If you’re comfortable with that, then go for it. If not, think again. Try to always keep in mind the purpose, the goal of what you’re writing, whether it’s a blog or story or some other type of writing.

The greatest writers of both fiction and nonfiction are able to share some of themselves in their writing. They are able to offer up a raw, bloody pound of flesh to those who care to partake. I’ve always liked my steak medium rare. If there’s no blood, how do you know that it was ever alive? Is it time for you to offer up a piece of yourself?