RE: The Challenges Of Being A Writer
Clearly some insights and offerings that come from experience and a relationship of true committed love - you and the word
Steemit has been a good catalyst for me to rediscover writing and I've stumbled through with sometimes a shining paragraph, but mostly just practice. My hope is always that my crafting of sentences supports rather than stands in the way of the ideas I'm expressing! Not always easy for me.
The most significant writing throughout my life has been a continuous thread of avid journaling that I began in my teens. It seems to be the only way I can process certain things within me. Putting them on paper gives me much needed perspective; I can lay out all the thoughts and understand them for what they are in a way that I can't do in any other way. I'm really using this tool in the recent 6 months and have written literally hundreds of pages. Some of my best insights and perspectives come to light but it's all content about my life, relationships and inner workings which frankly is kind of boring! Helpful for me though :-)
I bet it's so insightful to read those journals! I feel the same way about blogging, especially lately. I write about whatever is on my mind at the moment, it's been a freeing experience.
I wish I could do that with blogging, it shows that you're an agile thinker and writer to be able to do that!
Regarding rereading journals - it's very rare that I do...I find the power is in the writing itself. But I do have them just in case I change my mind :-)
In my case sometimes it's born from sheer lack of material. Lol.