jane- I’m not critizing your plan to write everyday, I think its quite commendable, although I do find fault with this article:
I think that some of these points are good. The more you write, the better your analytical and communication skills will get, and also obviously improve your writing technique.
However, for me its not a stress reliever at all. I get very frustrated by hand writing things because I can think much faster than I can write. I find a great deal of relief in being able to type things into a word processing program. Also, I don’t find I need to “turn the noise off†or “get away from technology†through writing, I would rather go for a walk or do something much more physical. As previously stated, I find that technology helps me think and write better.
In general, the other points that fall into the same sort of category of psychoanalysis/therapy: “sweep your mindâ€, “know what you wantâ€, “meet yourself all over again†are also a bit rubbish. I used to write a lot in journals from the time I was about 14 till my late 20s. I what I can say about that time is that I didn’t know what I wanted, didn’t know myself at all, and wallowed and analysed my problems and life to death in those journals. Did they help me? Not one little bit. You may call it living in denial, but I actually don’t think that ruminating in problems or the past or whatever in a journal makes things any better. Not in my case anyway. I’m sure it has probably been documented that writing helps people get over certain traumas, but there has also been evidence to suggest the opposite is true. That forgetting is actually how you get over things. Time = forgetting. .. Ok, getting off on a bit of a tangent here. If you want to write to try and solve your problems I suppose it might be useful, but possibly in a more structured way.
As for “Make Some Pocket Moneyâ€, I think the writer of this list certainly got some. As for everyone else, I don’t think its much motivation.
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jane- I’m not critizing your plan to write everyday, I think its quite commendable, although I do find fault with this article:
I think that some of these points are good. The more you write, the better your analytical and communication skills will get, and also obviously improve your writing technique.
However, for me its not a stress reliever at all. I get very frustrated by hand writing things because I can think much faster than I can write. I find a great deal of relief in being able to type things into a word processing program. Also, I don’t find I need to “turn the noise off†or “get away from technology†through writing, I would rather go for a walk or do something much more physical. As previously stated, I find that technology helps me think and write better.
In general, the other points that fall into the same sort of category of psychoanalysis/therapy: “sweep your mindâ€, “know what you wantâ€, “meet yourself all over again†are also a bit rubbish. I used to write a lot in journals from the time I was about 14 till my late 20s. I what I can say about that time is that I didn’t know what I wanted, didn’t know myself at all, and wallowed and analysed my problems and life to death in those journals. Did they help me? Not one little bit. You may call it living in denial, but I actually don’t think that ruminating in problems or the past or whatever in a journal makes things any better. Not in my case anyway. I’m sure it has probably been documented that writing helps people get over certain traumas, but there has also been evidence to suggest the opposite is true. That forgetting is actually how you get over things. Time = forgetting. .. Ok, getting off on a bit of a tangent here. If you want to write to try and solve your problems I suppose it might be useful, but possibly in a more structured way.
As for “Make Some Pocket Moneyâ€, I think the writer of this list certainly got some. As for everyone else, I don’t think its much motivation.