If you do journal or blog every day, how do you keep your self from missing a day, and what benifits have you seen from keeping such a daily regimine?
As a writer I've found it to be intrumental for me to write at least 15 minutes a day, and I've found my blog a convient place to write and share my work...
How 'bout you? Are you a writer that's interested in getting to know other writers via their blogs? If so, drop me a note:)
2006-07-13 08:58:46 · 8 answers · asked by Blissbug 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I read and write daily. Not a journal or a blog. But I do think it's important to have a daily routine. I call my daily routine the Lift. It consists of several required items, each taking only a few minutes, as well as several optional ones, which vary from time to time..
The required ones are as follows:
1. Readings. These are brief quotations from daily readings, which include but are not limited to (a) Poem a Day, (b) One-Year Bible, (c) other meditative readings; e.g., recent ones have included works of Lao-Tse, Rumi, and a book about mystics entitled Men Who Walked with God by Sheldon Cheney (not that other Cheney!! and I apologize for the sexist title, but it was written in the 1940s)
2. Poetry. Right now I write quadrads, a form of my own invention, always growing out of the experience of the day.
3. Diary. Never more than a line or two, just enough to help me remember what I did on which day.
4. Comment. This is brief writing, though sometimes I get carried away. It will usually be a brief comment on something I'm reading, an experience of the day, something I'm thinking about . . . . Some people call these "free writings," or timed nonstop writings. I call them focus writings -- never more than fifteen minutes, always focusing on one topic or idea, though I don't worry if my mind and pen wander.
Those are my daily requirements for myself, but everyone will come up with their own routine.
I have just begun writing at least three Yahoo! Answers each day, and I'm getting a lot of satisfaction from that. I'm a retired teacher, and I was never born to be retired! So I often (but not always) choose to respond to a question about reading and writing placed by a high-school or college student. Gives me a chance to stay in my old ballpark. But mainly I respond to questions that strike me as interesting -- that I haven't answered before. Like this one. Fascinating to think about.
For me -- because I'm often busy with other things -- daily writing must be (1) brief, not too time-consuming (2) routine (3) addressed only to myself, b/c I don't want to have to edit for a readership and, MOST IMPORTANT, (4) interesting to me personally and for me personally.
Why do I call it the Lift? Well, besides the obvious answer -- that is, it usually does give me a kind of psychological lift -- this title is from my favorite psalm: "I will lift up mine eyes unto these hills, from whence cometh my help." I'm a hiker. I love the woods and hills and skies of Tennessee, where I grew up. Daily writing is kinda like a daily walk on one of those wooded hills of my childhood, looking up to the sky through the branches of trees, thick with leaves in the summer and fall, bare limbs in the winter, always, always interesting.
2006-07-13 09:52:14 · answer #1 · answered by bfrank 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Interesting I should see your question. I just signed up for my first ever blog today. I'm not sure what the function of blogging is, aside from the fact that I get an occasional kick out of talking about myself. I do keep a journal...writing is a great way to "vent," and express your innermost thoughts and so on. I'm not too sure about sharing those thoughts with the whole world, however. Unless one is trying to write a book, and hopefully someone sees what they're writing and appreciates it, and alas! Maybe even signs you up or something!
2006-07-13 16:08:24 · answer #2 · answered by nara c 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I tried to write daily ...
At least now i'm trying to put weekly writing things on my blog ...
Poems are going quick, stories needs to have more time ....
And yes i'm always curious what other writers are writing ... for me it's good to read much because english isn't my native language.
2006-07-13 16:07:30 · answer #3 · answered by amugaba2001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a journal but i do not write daily - only when i feel like i cant stand without writing my thought down.
2006-07-13 16:25:45 · answer #4 · answered by Solveiga 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I blog whenever I can I don't have internet so I have to use the library. but yea it lets me get all my frustrations out and tell my friends whats really going on
2006-07-13 16:05:58 · answer #5 · answered by matgar 17 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have a blog, but it's just a simple one, nothing fancy or anything. i would like write everyday but sometimes i'm just not in the mood, and i really don't want to write anything crappy so i just write whenever i really have something to say.
2006-07-14 03:59:54 · answer #6 · answered by alycks 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this may sounds stupid but what's blog
sorry to waste your time
2006-07-13 16:10:36 · answer #7 · answered by last 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. not daily. not anymore.
2006-07-13 16:01:49 · answer #8 · answered by lifedrain 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋