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Articles and Blog Posts and Essays, Oh My!
How can you consistently come up with ideas to write about?
This is a strange, wonderful thing to say: I have been writing professionally for the last decade, but writing and editing have become my sole occupation only in the last two years. Since 2010, I have written and published 200+ articles, blog posts, essays, newsletters, and research papers. I also have a substantial body of unpublished creative projects that perhaps I will one day share with the world. Honestly, I’ve lost count of it all.
I am proud of every single piece that I have published, especially my more recent works — of the last year or so — which show the comfort and confidence I have found in regularly using my voice and expressing my point-of-view.
All this is to say that I spend a considerable amount of time writing — and thinking about what to write.
Knowing what to say and how I want to say it used to overwhelm me, but it has gotten less stressful — and more fun — with practice. One question has made all the difference, the same question I ask myself every time I prop my hands onto a laptop keyboard: What do you want people to know right now?
Make it personal
In the early spring of 2018, I started writing for Idealist Careers (IC). It was the first contributor…
