Journals & Writing

[duck2ducks]

The stereotype for a blog (and specifically a LiveJournal) is the post that shows up every 8-10 months, lamenting that they haven't written in ages and oh how embarrassing that is. And then nothing else for another 8-10 months.

As I do not enjoy being a stereotype, I made sure to get a couple of actual entries in before committing the sin of

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[nothinfinah]

I started writing a diary when I was 13. I wrote in it every day even if it was just to note the weather. the form changed slightly over the years and as I got older the frequency got kinda choppy (it's hard to write a detailed accurate entry when you've had a few drinks... and just as hard when you're suffering a hangover), and I also had days when I would spend hours scrawling about a week or mores worth of news in to my book

[duck2ducks]

I known a few people - well, all girls, actually - who have voiced a similar thing re: the difference in writing on a screen and writing on paper.

And I can *kind* of understand it, but only vaguely ... because I type fast enough that writing by pen seems AGONIZING at times. (Also, I do a lot of my composing and initial editing on the fly and use the backspace key a lot. Things you can't do as well on paper without a lot of scritchy-scratchy!)

But yeah, it's interesting to see how LJ seems to have declined a bit in the advent of Facebook and Twitter. Which is unfortunate, I think, because I still believe LJ offers an experience that isn't really duplicated quite anywhere else. But then, maybe people twitting is their reaction to the problem I cite - that of having less time to write down their thoughts - but where they take the tack of writing in 140-character lines, I just stopped writing for a while.... :P

[nothinfinah]

well facebook is more of a 'what am i up to right now' kind of medium. but a journal is much more indepth thoughts on subjects or whatever.
My physical paper journal is mostly the private entries of LJ. sometimes you need to get stuff down to clear out your head, but don't really want to share with the world.
the more public ones are like writing a letter to a friend, only a bunch of them all get it. I often copy an LJ journal entry into an email for friends and family that aren't on LJ and vice versa (stuff about our trip to the UK or a wedding weekend etc).

yes handwriting can be exceptionally straining on the hand but I'm glad I do it on occasion because I love to receive hand written cards and notes and letters and it seems to be a dying trend. It's rare to see nice handwriting these days and writing in my journal helps me practice.
I'm an old fashioned girl at heart. :)

[insideizzy]

I'll definitely be willing to kick you in the head because you are probably the only friend I have on my LJ anymore that writes anything. So when I get into writing, and I don't see any of my friends writing, I get bored and give up, because while its nice to send my thoughts out into the void, its nice to read someone else's, especially my brilliant brother! =)
And kudos to you on wanting to improve on your writing, because I'm either too lazy or I don't really feel like there's much more potential to improve my writing. I write the way that I speak, and that's about as good as it gets lol.

[duck2ducks]

Don't sell yourself short - there have been more than a couple of times I've actually been pretty impressed with the writing that's come out of you.

But yeah, I expect you've kind of got a lot to fill your plate already right now...! :D