You Can Write About Anything If You Do This

You can write about anything and make it interesting if you can learn how to look at ordinary things and see them in a completely new way. One way to do this is to get in touch with your “inner artist.”While browsing in book stores, especially in the art and photography sections, I have discovered that, artists and photographers (who are artists in their own right) create stunningly beautiful artistic photos by focusing their attention on very common, often insignificant things and bringing out hidden beauty by presenting these objects in a different light (pun intended.)
Many of the most visually satisfying pictures I have seen have been of old or discarded, quite ordinary implements of daily living, in common use many years ago, but now discarded, abandoned and forgotten; all showing the expected ravages of time: An old chipped, stoneware pitcher, a single wagon wheel, weathered gray and worn with deep ridges and furrows in the wooden spokes and hub, a bronze doorknob burnished smooth and polished to a rich greenish blue patina through the handling of countless users through the decades.
Artists can see things differently than the average passerby. They can even see and appreciate beauty in what many view as ugliness or in insignificant, mundane objects. The Japanese have a phrase for worn and ancient objects and settings. They call it “Wabi Sabi:” This is a philosophical view that recognizes that all material things in life are transient and impermanent and characterized by blemished beauty. Whenever an object or setting brings to mind “Wabi Sabi” there is also a tinge of sadness, because something so well suited to Life at its most vibrant is now slowly and surely passing away, its pristine condition giving way to the inexorable effects of time.
It will be an advantage to you, especially if you are a blog writer, to develop the same faculty possessed by artists: The ability to appreciate common things in your environment and interpret and present such things in a new way through the written word. If you cannot already do this, don’t worry, it is simply a matter of training and practice.
Seeing the “ordinary” in a different way is also a matter of thinking more simply and shedding the shell of sophistication we may have clothed ourselves in. Children do this instinctively. Have you ever noticed the strange objects they are fascinated with? ugly stones, pieces of metal or a broken toy, pieces of wood that would make good kindling for a campfire; children see something we don’t. When you teach yourself to see differently, you will begin to see value in things you stepped on before.
A?When you cultivate this ability, you will discover that anything can be turned into a topic that will be interesting and worth reading. There will be no shortage of possible topics for you to write about.