Don't know what to write about (Boring topic)

It is well known what a turn off a boring topic can be. All the inspiration and the enthusiasm immediately sink into the bottomless ocean of uniformity. But, despair not!

Ever heard that there are no stupid questions? Well, there are no boring topics either.

Put yourself in a role of a detective, or in the worst case, a reporter, and ask yourself:

• Who
• What
• When
• Where
• Why
• How

And now - google! Dig! The answers can be quite intriguing. Especially because there is so much trivia, true and untrue, but quite enough to provoke someone's interest and make them read.

If you think the topic you have been tasked to write about is a bit too boring or plain for your taste, you can simply give it a retouch. In other words, recreate it by giving your own remake of the topic!

And you will do this by choosing one of the enlisted ways:

• Use the topic as a metaphor to write about something totally different, but still defending your approache.g. Quite a hilarious but very charming and interesting essay by a high schooler proved to be an excellent example for such a practice. Apparently, he was supposed to write an analysis on the given topic which was the quote from the book he had to read before doing  a written test. He didn't read the book, of course, but he wrote one of his own, or rather a story. He used the quote to start the story of a dead man, his soul slowly leaving his coffin, the bereaved family and his earthly abode. His whole "goodbye" was written in a really post-modern, witty and approachable style. At some point he arrives to Heaven and meets with God. Well, the conversation between the two of them is a very creative punchline which ends with God asking the diseased one whether he read the book and whether he feels bad about it, because he should - he totally missed the topic.

• Use the topic as a title for a poem you will write, or as a rhyme, or a strophe.
  
  
• The topic might look like a potential quote or a wordly wisdom, so use it to talk about the symbolism in that author's work and the message he wanted to convey. Or what the people wanted to warn us about by saying such a thing.
  
  
• The topic might remind you of the work you have read, a documentary, or a movie you have watched, or even an event you have been present at, so you can relate the two. Connect them like they are one and the same, or make parallels between them to prove your point. Breathe your philosophy into it, or make a story out of it.

If you happen to be working on the topic of the "kitchen utensils", just wait for google solutions and users' questions to open your way up for you.

There are variety of questions you would have never thought of! For example:

• How to make sweets and cakes in the shape of the kitchen utensils?
• Kitchen utensils from "Beauty and the Beast" for my kitchen, and where to find them?
• The multipractical kitchen utensils for outdoor use
• How can you repair a stainless steel kitchen set?

etc.

If your imagination is lacking some craziness, let the others write your plot.

If you cannot come up with a topic or even start writing about something at all, you should use some of your virtual friends' comments, which will certainly give you a musely push.

A really useful trick is to :

• Post a question or a topic on some of your social profiles like Facebook or Twitter. (and do it somewhere where you have lurkers and followers waiting around the corner for someone to post a comment or a picture, so they can react to it)
• Post a question containing keywords that you will base your topic on
• Make them somehow give their own ideas and advice about what you will later use as a material
• Provoke them with the rhetoric question

What you are doing here is practically provoking them to give you a ready-made topic or triggering the process of random brainstorming, which you can safely borrow.

When you are digging for trivia, information and facts, remember that if you type down the "umbrella term", you might not see the end of the day before you dig out the right answer.

Instead, limit yourself to the more specific search for better and more particular results.

For example, if your topic is: Claustrophobia, you might put down

• Fear of the Cellars or
• Fear of the Atticks,

and by doing so, you are automatically choosing your audience, making the material more approachable, easy to come find, and certainly more interesting.

As mentioned on one very interesting web page - How To Write When You're Really Tired, when you don't feel like writing a word and when you really don't have a spare atom to put into the work, one of the ways is to make yourself do it by "bullying yourself into doing it".

In some cases, it does end up being productive and turns out to be a worthy step to push yourself from the phase of idleness into a very productive hour or two of creation.

Alas, in some other cases, people tend to develop an inner resentment against your work that can actually lead you to be even more unproductive later on.

You can take a risk, and it can actually work out for you, but beware of the consequences.