Let's face facts.
Creating learning content of any type is hard work.
But the hardest is writing.
We all try to avoid it.
No matter how new a writer you are.
No matter how accomplished a writer you are.
Whether you're an unpublished poet sitting in your spare bedroom.
Or John Irving who wrote "The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute.
If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
" Getting off your duff and actually writing is something that you are going to try to avoid.
Accept it.
Get over it.
But most of all find a way to overcome it.
There are several psychology models that will help you to understand why you are avoiding writing and what you must do to overcome that avoidance.
One of these is the five steps model.
This model of behavior starts off by saying that we have five steps that need to be addressed before we can address any problem.
The first step is vital or physical.
The second is instinctive.
The third is emotional and the fourth is intellectual.
Only when we reach the level of intellectual can we actually address a problem.
Only at that stage can we solve a problem.
But we still need to deal with the problem.
We still need to take action.
Which is the fifth and final stage.
Each of these stages is like a step.
And like any step you need to walk up them.
One at a time preferably.
In fact, in this case you have to.
Even when you think you've skipped a step you've really just bounced up it very quickly.
So what do you need to move up each step? There are two things you require.
The first is a stimulus.
Something coming in from the outside.
It could be an idea.
It could be a boss.
It could be the situation.
It could be a desire.
It could be a fear.
But something is going to stimulate you to move to the next level.
The second thing you require is energy.
That's why the stimulus is required.
There needs to be some form of a "Zap!" that gets you moving up to the next level.
You are going to want to stay in your current level.
You need to light a fire under yourself to move you to the next level.
Think about it for a moment.
Let's use driving a car for an example.
You're driving along happily and another car pulls out and cuts you off.
How do you react? First thing you do is draw in air.
You gasp.
Your hands grip the wheel tighter.
Maybe that's all that happens.
You just keep driving.
But if you think you're going to hit the car, your first instinct is going to be to turn the wheel.
You'll run.
But what if the danger is closer than that? The next stage is to get angry.
Or be afraid.
Perhaps you'll curse or pull over to the side and shake.
Many accidents occur because the driver became overcome with fear and didn't react properly.
That's what driver's education tries to do.
Make the proper reaction instinctive.
So you don't become emotional.
But if the stimulus is strong enough (and you have time), the final thing you'll try is to think your way out of a problem.
Don't turn into the traffic.
Turn into the grass.
Go behind.
(Frankly the example works better with being stuck in the snow!) But to move through each of these steps requires sufficient danger or energy.
You also need to do the same thing when trying to motivate.
You need to provide a stimulus that is sufficient to get you into action.