the trouble with blogging Jixel 3/23 '17

So often i have bought paper journals, inspired to write the words of my heart for future reflection and memorial eternal. I have a milk crate of these journals now, along with a personal moratorium on buying any such books for intended purpose. Most have one of two conditions of note:

  • One viviacious entry full of bubbling enthusiasm
  • No entries, blank as the day born, awaiting the proper moment to crack open the floodgates of time

It is not all in vain, however, as the inspiration came to me from the days of college creative writing, where we had to keep a small spiral book with us to write something every day. How was that so much easier then than now?

  • How do you inspire yourself to write?
  • What do you deem as "write-worthy?"
  • To whom are you addressing in your compositions?
  • How much win is this chalk drawing?

n.b. I haven't posted on 1PW for a while, I love all the enhancements I've missed, and I think I must have had my posts all private will mark them all public (all two that is #rofl)

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3/23 '17 5 Comments
Since you asked...

I don't deem anything worth writing down until after I've written it. I brain-barf, and some of it happens to be good.

I highly recommend it. Just spill words or hieroglyphics or spirals or whatever for 30 minutes a day until the timer goes off.
Lindsay Harris Friel
thanks i think that is exactly what i need to do. i had set some reminder to write but i hadn't thought about a timer on writing itself.
Jixel
Welcome back!
Thomas Boutell
thanks, the site looks so nice now, very inviting. i will have to try this from mobile too.
Jixel
Found your account via Tom’s recent post comments. Hope you don’t mind.

I have had the same affliction. Bought many a notebook (I have a whole ‘system’ for my daily driver’s log book that I set up with the hope that it would be more than ‘just’ that).

But with the ubiquity of digital platforms, I find digital… better. If I don’t have the notebook with me, or I’m not inspired when it IS with me…

Or what if I want to share something? I have to go find that notebook and dig it out, then thumb through it and… just… no.

I’m a bit like Lindsay. If I am not feeling inspired, but I’m reading the latest posts on OPW, I’ll try to ‘brain barf’ and see if anything comes of it. If not? I just mark it as private.

Because the thing is - I /want/ to write more. To journal more. I like getting my thoughts down. It’s similar to (but also different from) meditation.

Oh, and dictation on both iOS and Android have both improved enough that I even use that sometimes while rolling down the road if I want to get a thought down before I forget it.

So, journaling - yes. Paper - no. OPW? Perfect. (I may be a little biased, though.)

/War_and_Peace_that_you_never_requested
Matt Lichtenwalner