Since I have resumed to school, I have been choked with activities that prevents me from making a balance on Hive. Due to little time I have towards thinking on contents to create, I moved into vlogging because it makes me create content easily in a very short while.
Getting into vlogging was not easy at first, I faced struggles with lightning and sound. As I continued making my videos, I got better at editng my videos as well as my lightning and sound. I was able to create content easily through vlogs within a short time. All that left after making the videos was only editing them.
Now, I am at the point in which I really want to write than make videos but I have lost the flow I have when I think of a random topic and I write on them easily. As before, I write meaningful content of about 600 words least to about a 1000 words but now, when I chose to write, I find it hard to go above 200 words. It just doesn't flow, I think I have lost the feeling of expression through writing and now more comfortable with making only videos.
I spoke to my friend @manny-uncharted, who I just invited to hive about this and he told me in his own words; when you stop something for a while, there is this mental block that comes up trying to restart it. Yeah it is true even in a very different scenario except writing. Sometimes, when I don't play my guitar for a while, my connection with the guitar would not be as strong as it used to be. I would feel paralyzed in my movement and stuck.
I got a few advices from him which I would like to share; Either use Google speech to text type it on a notepad application on your phone, if it's lack of motivation to write. If it is lack of content, maybe peruse through the web YouTube and see things that can spark that eureka moment and then the mental block should gradually wear off and you're good to go.
These points he mentioned are good points, and I must say during the time when I was new to hive, I used to go to google to read people's article to get a feel or understanding of a topic I used to write then come down to hive and portray down my feelings in words. That way, I cover a lot of words and pass information as well.
Right now, I feel the reason for my writer's block is also due to being in an exam period. My mind generally is not calm, neither do I sleep well on a normal day and I have been trying to force things out.
Since I know writing doesn't work out by forcing things out, I decided to write on this topic which is presently more about the way I feel. That way, I can go above my minimum number of words mark which is 300 words and still make some sense.
WHO IS STARSTRINGS01
Starstrings01 AKA Giftedhands is a Hive lover, a Nigeria musician (Guitarist) and also a student who studies Mechatronics Engineering in the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta.
His goal on Hive is to be more than a regular blogger but something more; someone with a purpose. That’s one of the reasons why he founded the newbies initiative @newbies-hive to help guide and support newbies. Kindly click here to follow @newbies-hive curation trail.
He battles and struggles with balancing education and being active on the chain but yet his love and passion for Hive keeps him still on the balance.
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