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Case Study Of A Creative Strategy To Generate Blog Post Ideas

Kevin Shan
6 min readNov 19, 2019

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I don’t know what to write about today.

I purposely left my daily Medium article towards the end of my day instead of the very beginning in hopes that I’ll come up with an idea by the end of the day.

Unfortunately, I didn’t come up with any ideas.

I would have written another post about productivity as a blogger, but today was nothing particularly special.

I added a few pages to the first Wealthy Affiliate training that I am making and I wrote a 3,000-word post for Get Good At Badminton.

Not bad, but it’s not as clickbait worthy as something like writing 10,000 words in one day.

Anyways, I’m just typing. Typing in hopes that ideas come to my head.

It reminds me of the time when we had creative writing sessions in grade 9. This writer would come in and our only assignment was to write anything that popped to our heads for 10-minutes.

The goal was to never let the pencil up from the paper for more than even a second. The only time the pencil stopped touching the paper was to create a space between different words.

By the end of the 10–minutes, I remember the soreness in my wrist. I would give a huge sigh of relief and give my hands a big…

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Kevin Shan
Kevin Shan

Written by Kevin Shan

Stock market analyst and athlete, writing about investing, self-improvement, and more. Subscribe to me here: https://bit.ly/3YMlCVC

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