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This one is simply going to be a journal entry.
On my writing
I haven’t liked my past few posts. They have all been ideas of things I should post about rather than pure creative writing. That’s why I’m doing a journal entry today — it’s kind of the opposite, in that it isn’t trying to be something.
Also the recent articles have been posts I’ve done because I feel like I should do a post every day. That wasn’t what I originally set out to do, but I did it for the first few days and then it seemed like a really good idea. And I think that it mostly is. It just means I’m putting out a few things which are not that great. And I do feel a certain level of responsibility for that — I don’t want to waste peoples time — and even if I am doing this for me, as I claim to be, it’s still out there in the public, and perhaps showing up in peoples feeds.
I really like the “Spirit Journeying” piece I wrote when I went away solo camping early last week. Since then I haven’t especially liked what I’ve put out there. A big difference there was I obviously gave myself a bit of time to just do that; I didn’t have other life going on. The pieces I’ve written since then have also been written at night, before going to bed, just so that I’m getting an article a day published. Prior to that I was generally writing in the early morning, which is a lovely writing time, and if I’m up early enough before anyone else in the household it does give me a good chunk of time to write.
