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Iāve been writing a lot lately! In my journal, for publications, long emails to friends. Itās quite wonderful. I love going back to read what I wrote too. I love going back to those moments. sometimes I write peoples names and what I appreciate about them, sometimes I write what I want to achieve in that month, sometimes I write book reviews or film reviews or whatever it is I feel the need to write about in that time. I recently wrote about what my city sounds like and I wonder if those sounds will change. If or when they do, Iāll get to go back to that piece and remember - or when I leave this city Iāll have that article as a reminder and Iāll be able to travel back in time. Itās documenting history.
Apr 14, 2024
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āļøThe other day I went to a coffee shop with the intention of reading my book but instead spent about two hours writing in my journal.
Iām not a great journaler. Itās the kind of relationship where Iāll pick it up when Iām going through something, be really consistent for a couple days, and then once Iām feeling lighter I wonāt touch it for months.
Iām definitely not in the easiest season of life right now, but im not actively shittingscreamingcryingthrowingup about anything at the moment. For some reason though, despite my mentally āupā state of being, I was desperate to write down everything Iāve been thinking and feeling in the past couple weeks.
I honestly think itās why the past couple days I havenāt posted anything on this app is because anything I wouldāve mused about I already wrote in my journal lol. I even considered just taking a picture of the journal pages and posting them here but that felt too intimate? Maybe?
Iām not a great journaler. Itās the kind of relationship where Iāll pick it up when Iām going through something, be really consistent for a couple days, and then once Iām feeling lighter I wonāt touch it for months.
Iām definitely not in the easiest season of life right now, but im not actively shittingscreamingcryingthrowingup about anything at the moment. For some reason though, despite my mentally āupā state of being, I was desperate to write down everything Iāve been thinking and feeling in the past couple weeks.
I honestly think itās why the past couple days I havenāt posted anything on this app is because anything I wouldāve mused about I already wrote in my journal lol. I even considered just taking a picture of the journal pages and posting them here but that felt too intimate? Maybe?
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āļøpersonally i write when i feel a Big Emotion or i think iāve reached an epiphany on something. i write on scrap paper, in my journal or in my notes app. i used to write movie reviews for my uniās magazine but my workload got too hectic. i also write for the performance of having written something sometimes you know. i used to do more god awful poetry when i was younger but currently in my free thought prose bag. i share my writing with my friends mostly. iāve got a substack but just never posted on there. most importantly for me anyways i write so in a couple months i can look back amused at what i had going on. also want to try and write from a non personal standpoint. but hope this was helpful!!
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šidk if anyone else has this experience but been journaling all my life. Could write a book fr
But sometimes I get caught up in more of what I think about feels like ~productive journaling~. Journaling about values, goals, stuff thatās happened and my feelings about situations and experiences I have had
This all feels ā¦. Good, but too productive
Iāve been taking moments to write about whatās directly in front of me And instead painting a picture of whatever immediate scene im in. āIām on a train , itās dark, the only way I know thereās houses on the hills in the distance is by their glowing light through the windowsā
Itās helped me tap into a different part of my brain & feels really good. There have been periods where I donāt focus on this type of stuff while writing.
Just a reminder to pause ā¤ļø
But sometimes I get caught up in more of what I think about feels like ~productive journaling~. Journaling about values, goals, stuff thatās happened and my feelings about situations and experiences I have had
This all feels ā¦. Good, but too productive
Iāve been taking moments to write about whatās directly in front of me And instead painting a picture of whatever immediate scene im in. āIām on a train , itās dark, the only way I know thereās houses on the hills in the distance is by their glowing light through the windowsā
Itās helped me tap into a different part of my brain & feels really good. There have been periods where I donāt focus on this type of stuff while writing.
Just a reminder to pause ā¤ļø
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