How Writing Regularly Changed My Life and How You Can Get Started
How Writing Regularly Changed My Life and How You Can Get Started.
I've been trying to motivate myself to write more (hint: figure out how to disable Facebook and Ravelry for a couple of hours each day), so seeing a link to this article - on Facebook, naturally - was serendipitous.
Once, I tried doing "The Artist's Way." It makes writing morning pages - that's three pages of uncensored, stream-of-consciousness writing, EVERY day - mandatory. I didn't mind doing that, but stalled at Week 5 (?), where you have to indulge in "reading deprivation" for a week. Yes, a whole week. Julia Cameron's reasoning for including reading deprivation was so condescending that I chucked the book and stopped doing TAW altogether.
The author recommends Day One (a journal app) which, miracle of miracles, was a free app in the iTunes App Store this past week. I managed to write one line when testing out the program.
Writing has helped my memory, it’s made me happier, and given me a sense of pride in a habit that I believe is hard to crack. If you don’t already, I think you should give it a try.