What's the best way to start writing: keeping a journal/blog or just writing randomly?
Sit yourself down with your writing implement of choice, be it quill and parchment (you know, for the feel of the things), paper and pen or pencil (rockin' it old school), or keyboard and screen. Which ever you fancy most, use that.Now write. Write anything. Write everything that pops into your head. Write about the texture and color of the wallpaper you're staring at. Write about the sensations your body is throwing at you to distract you from writing. Write about the bumps in the night at 3:30am when the cat brought in that damned lizard. Write about the weather. Write about the lack of weather. Write about how annoying that damned fly buzzing around your head has been for the past week. Write about how much you want to go swimming but you can't because you have to write something.If you do this consistently enough (every workday, as if it is a job), then you will eventually find your writing voice, the way that your words fall and flow, how they sound when read aloud. For instance, my writing voice is more conversational than formal. Also, if you do this daily writing consistently enough, stories will start to come to you. It's like leaving a saucer of milk out for the faeries - they love to feel invited! And once the stories start coming to you, there's really no way to block them from you except by getting them out of your head by writing them down. Stories captured by writing them down tend to stay quiet, unlike the uncaptured stories flooding your mind.If you invite stories long enough, and capture them by writing them, then pretty soon you'll have a large collection of written stories. These can be edited (first drafts are actually SUPPOSED to suck!) and polished and revised and generally improved until they're the very best you can make of them. Then, you release the stories back out into the wild, be it by self-publishing them or by lucking out and getting a professional publisher to buy them from you.You will find, though, that stories tend to breed behind your back, like rabbits. There's a reason the things are often referred to as plotbunnies.
Should I start writing a diary or a journal? And what's the difference between the two? Also, why does it get so boring after writing a few pages?
Writing a journal is usually recording certain events over a period of time. For example: You write a travel journal when you are travelling and you record your experiences and events which took place over that course of time.Writing a diary is recording your personal views opinions and your thoughts. You write your feelings over there and it is personal.I'll give you my experience of writing diary entries: I basically started writing in the diary in January 2015. Initially, it was interesting to write my thoughts and everything. But later on I got bored of writing all my thoughts on paper (it was exhausting at one point). At one point I was going through a phase; I won't call it depression but it was a tough time for me. That is when the diary helped me a lot. I could pen down my feelings in the diary and now when I read those entries it helps me. Not only that, it also improved my writing skills and to express more while writing.So basically, keeping journals and maintaining diaries is exhausting and you may get bored very soon. It is because you are not used to writing endless pages about your thoughts; you're not used to expressing so much on paper. Once you get used to it, it'll be fine. It's an amazing practice. And you should also know that writing diary does not necessarily mean writing entries everyday. You can write whenever you feel like. In my opinion, one should maintain a diary atleast once in their life. Hope this helped. Cheers!
Am I wrong for keeping a personal journal from my boyfriend?
I have a boyfriend whom I've been dating for about 1 1/2 years. In this amount of time, due to other issues, I have alienated myself from most of my friends and people I would confide in. My BF is kind of hard to talk to as well. SO, in July, I began keeping a diary of things going on in my life (be it our relationship, my family, friends, work, etc.) I do this to get out frustrations and thoughts that would otherwise stew inside of me, and put them on paper, so I can later reflect while in a different mood! People tell me this is good for me. My BF on the other hand feels I should not have this journal and thinks I'm keeping secrets from him. I told him if he HAS to read then go ahead. But he won't. He assumes its all bad stuff about him & he'll just give me crap about it when he notices I've had it out and written in it. Keep in mind we're not married, engaged. or co-habitating, so I have 2 questions. 1) Am I wrong for keeping this diary? 2) Am I obligated to share it with him?
Is it unmanly for a man to keep a journal?
my brother has a journal under his bed, I really want to read it, (he isn't even home right now). but ugh, i don't know if i should or if i should not!? he even has a kitten as a pet, is he gay or something? and that makes me want to read it even more.
What could I write in a journal/diary and keep writing in it all year?
Write about your dreams. Every morning, after you wake up, jot something down quickly about what your brain imagined while you were asleep.I know that sometimes we forget what happens in our dreams, so maybe you won’t be able to continue with that suggestion throughout the entire year. Otherwise, you can try jotting down the first thing that comes to your mind when you wake up. Write it down, even if it’s embarrassing or pointless (e.g. “I need to brush my teeth!”).Here’s a personal favorite of mine: on the first day with your journal, write down two names. The next day, write down a place. The day after that, write down a backstory for the two names you wrote before. The next day, write an action. The day after that, write another action.Do you see where this is going? You’ll have a story. It can be a “2017 Story!”. You can even base it off of your experiences!Some other suggestions:1). Write the name of the person who influenced you the most that day. Write down why they influenced you the most. That person may even be, simply, yourself! Pinpoint your role models to learn from them! Pinpoint those who influenced you badly, so you know not to follow their behavior.2). Write down something you wish you had done that day. That way, you’ll be more conscious about doing what you love the next day.3). Write down something you liked about anyone you interacted with that day.4). Write down a way you want to change the world every day. Build your dreams and goals!Hope this helps! Thanks for requesting an answer, Blue Rose ;)
Does bullet journaling really help with increasing productivity or does it just take up more of your time to do?
Dear Tatevik!You will receive a lot of different opinions about it.A lots of people will say: Yes, it improves my productivity.The only problem is that productivity means different things to different people and everybody has different standards.So to get a real answer to your question, let's start with the beginning, the definition of productivity. By Merriam-Webster :1 : the quality or state of being productiveOk, that's great, but what is the definition of "productive"? ( By Merriam-Webster)Definition :-doing or achieving a lot : working hard and getting good results-producing or able to produce something especially in large amounts-having the quality or power of producing especially in abundance.So if you look closer, there are some important takeaways from the definition.First of all:If you want to be more productive (a.k.a. Improve your productivity) than you should produce more -in quantity - at the end of the day.If you are a writer and yesterday you wrote 5 pages, today 15, than you were more productive!The second takeaways : the hours you use don't really matters.If you wrote that 15 pages within an hour today, but yesterday you were writing that 5 pages under 4 hour, doesn't matter. You were more productive today.So if you start bullet Journaling the main question is this :Will it help you to create more or produce more daily ( somehow)?If only it can help just to identify what's important and then you take action and get those tasks done, that's awesome.I like productivity planners which keep things real, and just get it what productivity really means.When you bullet Journaling you start with a blank page every day. It gives you a lot of freedom, but it also has a disadvantage.There is no frame.I prefer focus, so I like when I open my planner in the morning and it's just crafted for achieving a lot and win the day.But that's me, and as I told you previously, everyone is different.Hope it helps!Have a lovely and productive day!RolandPs.: I use the ifocus business planner to plan my week and prioritize my stuff and get shit done. It's just a badass planner for entrepreneurs, makers and creatives.
Why do people keep journals/diaries?
For some people, the act of using a pencil is more stress relieving. Also, some things may be too personal and/or private to publish on the Internet. Not all people are the some -- some may be totally against modern technology, while others love it but have old-fashioned tendencies.
Pagans... Do you keep a daily spiritual journal?
I used to keep a diary that I wrote in fairly frequently. Then I had a dream journal that I wrote really intense dreams in. These were kind of running parallel to each other for a while. I still keep a notebook filled with just my odd thought and ideas for things like rituals, poem starts, maybe a class or discussion idea or two. I also keep a log of tarot readings or other readings I get for myself, just to see how things follow through for me. These have worked their way into kind of my running BOS. I try to keep a daily planner- the We'Moon calendar is wonderful, and this I keep short notes in when I think about it. Not just my work schedule or appointments, but rituals, workshops, festivals, and there are blank pages that usually become that random idea place.(ADHD is a b*tch!) I agree with the poster about that is what Yahoo answers has sort of become. I also was writing on Myspace, but I took that down-saved my blogs- because I wasn't on it that much. I'm on Facebook now, but I play games over there more than I seriously blog. I actually have a running file where I save my posts from here and a few other sites,( especially when I get a best answer! ;-)). No, really, these has been the topic of conversation with my girlfriends on occasions, questions I have seen or answered here. My friend Christin answers as well and sometimes we get going on the same questions.) I guess my computer has become my new journal of sorts. Does that count?