Hey,
I am a big proponent of writing in a journal - I think it really helps me unload the scrambled mess in my brain. The thing is though, writing in my journal takes 1-2 hours of my time - not to mention the time it takes to get into the mood to write for 1-2 hours a day. How do you guys write daily / regularly? When I’m on vacation it’s super helpful to write in there, and I wish I could do that during the week. Typing is a solution, but I feel like I write with less efficacy since I don’t have a lot of time between sentences. My sentences while writing are a lot more well formed, I think.
What do you guys do?
If you do it everyday, I think you’ll find many days will just be shorter. It seems to depend a lot on what’s going on in my life. I’ve been doing it almost daily for over 20 years, but I’ve also been typing it all.
I have tried handwriting journaling, but I find it frustrating, especially at the wpm output I’m used to being able to do. Also my handwriting sucks. Or as one of my teachers used to call it - “chicken scratch” haha
The other thing is that once you have years of it, it’s pretty neat to be able to search a name or keyword and be able to see your entries about it across years of history. I’m always astounded at just how fallible our memory is.