How I find article ideas

A little How-To on how I find Ideas

I have been blogging for more than 12 years now and was a guest on other blogs. I also wrote articles on other places, but in the last 5 years I have had ‘writer's block’. Much due to my sickness and little input on what to write about. Now, a little more than 1 month since I started taking my writing more seriously again, I have a queue of close to 30 article ideas! How have I done this? And what’s my process?

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Input?

As in much other creative work, writing is no exception. You need some kind of input, for me the following is triggers:

1. Articles on the net, like here on Medium Saves in Diigo or Evernote
2. Tweets, I clip interesting stuff to MyMind
3. Books, I read a lot. This year I have (so far) read more than 200 books. My guess is I will end up at about +230 books.
4. Watching news and Youtube videos
5. Other sources

I would say that most of my ideas come from stuff I read online, like articles on Medium, Substack or so. I also find a lot of interesting stuff on Twitter.