Notebooks/Journals
Ever since I was smaller than I am now, I've had trouble with notebooks. I can't get enough of them, for one. For two? I never write anything in them. Particularly the ones I like.
It goes like this: I get a notebook for the purpose of writing things in it. Then I don't know what to write. Nothing seems good enough to put in my nice, pretty, new notebook. And so it just sits there while my thoughts die slow, agonizing deaths in my head.
So, I though, why not force myself to write in it right away? So I try... this helps for about a page... and then I start to despise the notebook. It's not living up to my standards anymore. I can't find a consistent voice now... because the voice I just wrote in was CRAP!
Do you see my problem?
LJ is kind of like that, too.
It goes like this: I get a notebook for the purpose of writing things in it. Then I don't know what to write. Nothing seems good enough to put in my nice, pretty, new notebook. And so it just sits there while my thoughts die slow, agonizing deaths in my head.
So, I though, why not force myself to write in it right away? So I try... this helps for about a page... and then I start to despise the notebook. It's not living up to my standards anymore. I can't find a consistent voice now... because the voice I just wrote in was CRAP!
Do you see my problem?
LJ is kind of like that, too.