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Every Article has an Inner Story
Inspiration can come from anything you read. Here is an experiment you can try in an afternoon.
I have been a writer for two months by now, and there is one thing that always puzzles me: every time I write an article, two other ideas pop-up.
So far, most of my work has been on things I wish I had read back when I needed it or simply about stuff that genuinely amazes me. I explained complex concepts and ideas, I listed top-ten scientific articles to read on AI, and I wrote an essay on the marvelous Construção, by Chico Buarque.
In all these pieces, when writing them down, some concepts would stand out and make me think, “this could be an article in itself.”
Take that last one, Construção. The song is entirely put in dodecassilable verses rhymed in proparoxytone words (words with stress is on the antepenultimate syllable). That’s a huge undertaking. With some additional research, this rhyming idea could make a full-blown article on poetry.
When doing my ten papers to read on AI, I pretty much thought about doing a whole piece on each paper. I even started some drafts.
So here I am writing about this and thinking: is this a thing with me and my writing or every article has an inner story waiting to be…