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It may be true that there will always be stories that journalists can tell and people they can highlight in their reporting, but what can you do when you're struggling to come up with interesting ideas to write about?
Author Roy Peter Clark has written a book containing 210 solutions to problems every writer faces, lack of inspiration being one of them, and he made 10 recommendations for dealing with it in this Poynter post.
He suggests keeping a notebook of story ideas on hand, that could prove useful later on; reading a book on a more unfamiliar topic, rather than the specialism you write about on a daily basis and spending a day with a person whose job interests you for a "day in the life" story idea.
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