How often do you write?

Me too! I've tried to switch to computer, but it just isn't the same as writing it on paper and having things documented on paper to look back on.

 

Throughout life I've written for fun. In Grad school we had a major paper due about once a week, usually in the 15 to 20 page range. I enjoyed those not so much because of the topic material rather the fact that they were dry topics that begged to have some flair in order to intice the reader to continue reading. Often the topics had all the appeal of eating dry oatmeal. Journaling has been sporatic and usually timed with life events of particular note or intensity. These writings have pleased me through out the years, sometimes prophetic other times more like pathetic yet valuable in assessing a time past. I've never had illusions of being published. Too damn lazy to pursue the disipline truth to tell. Now as I bask in Elderhood I feel a stirring to write. To capture memories that will otherwise fade as I myself fade. Life has been wonderfully complex and complicated. My connections to various people, family by blood, family by spirit are more important than ever. My seven sons are all adopted. Three sets of blood brothers strung over a period of forty years.. I want to leave connections for all those sons. So writing is beginning to feel much more a duty of love and linkage. I have question which I'll post here, requests for guidance, appraisal of clarity, that sort of thing. Aren't we fortunate creatures at this point in time to cast our pearls across the web and find out from invisible sources whether we make one damn bit of sense or not.

 

This is exactly why I love to journal so much. It's no longer simply a therapeutic thing for me. It's capturing ideas and moments in time as I experience them and my thoughts on them in such a way that they cannot fade. My hope is that one day my children or even grandchildren will find these books and read them not only as heirlooms of our family, but as parts of history. I imagine it to be something like coming across old journals of my own grandmothers. I would have loved to have access to something like that. I hope to be able to use my journals as teaching tools to my children as well. Maybe I see something in a way that my children and grandchildren will not have. If so, their minds will be opened to a different perspective. Or perhaps by that time in the future, my perspective will be very narrow and flawed in ways that I don't yet understand.
Either way, I hope that people in the future can find some benefit from my journals one day. Even if it's just one person. I hope someone can find personal value from them, if not just me.

 

I try to write 5 time a week.I might work on writing 5min to and hour.

 

I prefer the computer myself, as I have terrible handwriting. I tried to force myself on a schedule, but the inspiration comes and goes. Sometimes I need to have what I wrote bounce around in my head for awhile to know where I'm going next. I've been working on a novel for a year now and I resigned myself to a glacially slow approach...

But I do force myself to journal every night.

 

I find writing helps when someone is upset,distraught,etc......

They just start writing and realise they have written a page full of upset words,etc.......

I dont have the paitence to really write that much i dunno why......

 

i want to write about various issues in life, about people, but get very little time from my schedule. so, it comes down to every 2 or 3 months when i write a blog.

 

I write when I am inspired. Which is usually anywhere from every month to every three months. But I am always satisfied when I finish. If I'm not, I destroy my work and forget about it. Kind of sad I suppose, but to me being involved in art means that we must set out to reach perfection and accept nothing less than just that.

 

I'm a typer. I love my little netbook, I take it everywhere and hammer out work on trains, in libraries and at college.

At the moment I have a strict 500 (but preferably over a 1,000) word a day minimum rule because I'm so behind with work. Usually, I'd hope for a couple of short pieces a week and one big project a month.

 

not enough, i wish i was a better writer.

 

I write mathematical article type material about every other day, usually an hour or two each session. See my image box for 'screenshots' of some of my work.

 

my soul and my pen does the writing. i just follow and i write, every time i do.

 

I struggle with the writer's laze. I take notes, set out every scene or chapter, but hate typing and find my popcorn cieling to be more interesting.

I love my routine. very minimalistic, write all dialogue, and character action that effects the plot, get it all out till the story is done. after that I go back and take care of the details.

I hate my writing process though. I have a very noisy mind and need to spend hours to days clearing it, getting to a very zen like emptiness. the process is usually interrupted by someone else, or an errand, and I have to start the clearing again.

For the last 6 months I have been taking notes everyday and typing weekly. Wish I could get a cabin in the woods with nothing but a record player and type daily.

 

Fitch, I live in a cabin in the woods, but we've got all the distractions except TV. No matter, we can get TV on the internet if we really wanted it.

I write daily, but usually it is articles, not fiction. I would like to be more consistent at writing fiction daily. Sorry to say, it is the non-fiction I can make more money with!

 

I don't stick to a schedule xD I write whenever I have the free time, and I write poetry every night, sometimes even when I should be working! I've been writing avidly for eight years now, and it's one of my very favourite things to do xD

 

I just bought a new journal the other day. It's beautiful and exactly what I wanted when I went out looking for one.

It's small and fits perfectly in whatever purse I decide to carry. Definitely fits my lifestyle so much better already! I love it.

Pretty Journal

 

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