What to Say

Deep in the thickest bout of writer’s block a guy can remember.

I know you didn’t ask.

But I thought I’d share anyways,

For anyone else out there brave or self-absorbed enough to share yourself with the world.¹ Even more so for anyone else considering doing it but too scared to try.

Some times you simply don’t have the juice.

In those times it’s often a combination of culprits - traveling for work, tired, out of practice, the ideas in your drafts are too big for their shoes.

Other times the ideas come to you faster than you can catch them - November of last year I wrote 25 blogs posts in 30 days like a fever dream.

The hardest part of blogging is starting. The second hardest is coming up with more things to say after a stretch like that^

So here are a few things to remember for any cosmic soldiers looking for ways to say what they think in trying times like these:

First, write your ideas down as soon as they occur.

The most primitive version, you must capture it - carry a notepad, use your notes app (if I’m at my laptop I’ll often just create a draft blog post with only the title), don’t let it escape.

In all my time experience, rarely am I able to form a full blog in the same motion as the idea occurs, usually it’s best to let it marinate for a bit.

Second, do everything to convince yourself that no one is listening anyways.

This will save you from overthinking, it’ll also help keep your ideas pure. We write best when we write for ourselves - too often you begin to write something because you feel like you have to, and that’s when you lose your creativity and originality.

Remind yourself that you are writing for no one but yourself and you will notice more freedom to move about the cabin.

Third, it’s okay to elaborate on past thoughts and ideas.

Not every thought needs to be brand new, never-before-thunk. In fact, often times the best posts are revisions and refinements of more primordial ideas, because it affords you the opportunity to build where you left off.

This goes for both original works and the ideas of others. We are so interconnected that most thought in 2025 is derivative any ways, lean into it and produce better stuff.

Fourth, spend less time letting chatGPT do the work for you.

I know… counterintuitive. It’s easy when you’re writersblocked to lean on the convenient crutch of AI to help you come up with ideas. I think it actually makes it much harder over the long-term.

Like most things, writing is a muscle - specifically the part where you form and nurture new ideas. Use it or lose it baby.

Lastly… just start.

Even when ideas are sparse and the energy isn’t there, some times the best thing you can do for yourself is just sit down and not get up until you’ve got something on the page. Doesn’t have to be fully formed, doesn’t have to even be good.

Something is better than nothing. We live in a world where more and more of our waking time is spent consuming. Do everything you can to fight it, the only way out is by producing.

Sharing your ideas, making new things, working with others. Those are the things that make the world go round. The silver lining… it’s never been easier to get started :-)

Peace,
Ramsey

1  I have been an outspoken proponent of the idea that everyone should have a blog even if you don’t share it with anyone but yourself. Here’s 75 reasons why