Comments on: Journaling http://www.franciscostork.com/blog/2007/09/20/journaling/ an author discusses the art of writing Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:51:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Chaim http://www.franciscostork.com/blog/2007/09/20/journaling/#comment-334 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:51:36 +0000 http://www.franciscostork.com/blog/2007/09/20/journaling/#comment-334 I tried to journal for years before finally getting it. The big step came when I started to write as if no one would read it, rather than constantly thinking I was writing for some type of audience. The writing became far less self-conscious, and much more honest. A think a journal can compare to a good friend. Sometimes it helps to talk things out. I can't think of how many times I've called a friend to talk about something, and come to new understandings after hearing the words come out of my mouth. Once things were verbalized, they became more clear. For me, journaling is that but ten fold. I am far more eloquent, I think, in writing than I am in speaking. And in my journal I can talk about things more freely than I can with any one person. I am constantly coming to new insights and new understandings just through the process of dumping information onto the page. In fact, even today, sitting in a coffee shop, I had a major "oh wow" moment. I also tend to forget things the moment I journal them. I forget because I am not composing, really. I am just dumping. That way, i can go back to entries from only a few months ago and almost view them objectively, and this brings the greatest insights of all. I tried to journal for years before finally getting it. The big step came when I started to write as if no one would read it, rather than constantly thinking I was writing for some type of audience. The writing became far less self-conscious, and much more honest.

A think a journal can compare to a good friend. Sometimes it helps to talk things out. I can’t think of how many times I’ve called a friend to talk about something, and come to new understandings after hearing the words come out of my mouth. Once things were verbalized, they became more clear.

For me, journaling is that but ten fold. I am far more eloquent, I think, in writing than I am in speaking. And in my journal I can talk about things more freely than I can with any one person. I am constantly coming to new insights and new understandings just through the process of dumping information onto the page. In fact, even today, sitting in a coffee shop, I had a major “oh wow” moment.

I also tend to forget things the moment I journal them. I forget because I am not composing, really. I am just dumping. That way, i can go back to entries from only a few months ago and almost view them objectively, and this brings the greatest insights of all.

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