As a Toastmaster of many years’ experience, it surprises me when my fellow Toastmasters tell me they’re having difficulty finding a speech topic. Why does this surprise me? Because we join Toastmasters to improve our public speaking skills. And why would we wish to speak in public, unless we had something to say?
The same applies to writers who feel blocked. Sure, there may be many other priorities in our lives which drag us away from writing, and there may be good reasons why we hesitate before committing our fingers to the keyboard. But the fundamental question remains: do we have something essential which we need to communicate?
Perhaps the idea of being a public speaker or a writer is so alluring to some of us that it becomes an end in itself. But a public speaker is one who speaks in public. A writer is one who writes. And in both cases, having something to communicate is clearly a prerequisite.
So—what is your story? What ideas do you hope to advance? What has been revealed to you in your dreams or through your life experience that you feel compelled to share with the world? Once you find the tales that only you can tell, once you plumb the depths of human emotion, once you resolve the mysteries that no one else can crack, then you will find you voice. And nothing will keep you from writing, from speaking, from capturing the attention of the audience and giving them something brave and rare in return.