People often ask me where I get my writing ideas, and because I’ve been a writer most of my life (official, technical, or otherwise), I haven’t actually thought about it too much. I’m forever composing short stories, blog posts and articles in my head, or at least coming up with the ideas for all those things as I go through my daily life.

– Waiting for an elevator, sitting on the subway on my way to the office, as I go for a walk in the park –

These are the times that I use to think of ideas for writing projects. Of course this is not where my obstacles lie. I’m definitely an ideas gal.

My issues lie in the fact that I often don’t have an outlet for these ideas. By outlet I mean somewhere to post / publish / send my ideas. I would spend time in actually writing these things up, but since I don’t have any end goal for them, I often don’t even bother.

Further extrapolating this idea, I’ve been trying to push the boundaries of the types of writing that I do. While I enjoy technical writing, and producing documents that people find helpful, I’m always looking to flex my writing muscles and work on other topics and project types. That’s why in my Services page, I talk about the technical writing projects alongside my article writing, my editing services and more. Most freelancers will talk about how you need to pick a niche and write about it and stick to it, but at this point I’m thinking I need to cast a wider net to drum up initial business.

Now it’s time to take the ideas from thought to action.