by ZombieSkittles on October 21, 2011
I’ve started writing in my journal again. I’ve been aiming to write in there regardless of if anything interesting happened that day, as a sort of exercise for myself, and just to record my life out of personal interest.
This along with my friend’s interest in calligraphy, has made me start thinking about something; how often do most of us write? When I say write, I don’t mean “writing” using a computer, as that’s typing. I also don’t mean when you grab a pen to scrawl down a quick reminder or a phone number. I’m talking about sitting down with a pen and paper and writing a page for any reason, whether it’s a letter to someone, for a journal, or even a draft for something that will get typed up later?
The more I think about it, the more it feels like it might be true, that handwritten articles and the act of handwriting itself is becoming a lot rarer. I remember in high school, I’d see the handwriting of many a classmate, and be absolutely appalled at their messy writing. I can only assume the teachers were as well, which is why it started being standard practice for essays and projects to be typed up and printed before being handed up. I mean, if the teacher can’t read it, how can he mark it?
At the same time though, how are people able to improve their writing skills when they’re taught to rely on the computer to make everything neat?
I’d love to see more people handwriting things. It would make me happy.
by ZombieSkittles on September 23, 2009
I’m one of those guys who have a journal to write down feelings, and make the pages soggy with my tears. I’ve posted an entry on here before, and tend to just write random personal thoughts that probably shouldn’t be put out there in public.
However, how do you decide what to write about? Do you write about each day? There’d be a lot of boring entries, and half of them might be the same, unless you were exceptionally amazing. Or just particularly eventful…events that happen?
I’ve attempted to keep journals in the past, but more often than not they turn dark and I end up tearing pages out. I also wrote too much in them to the point that I ran out of things I wanted to, and they end up getting thrown in a drawer gathering dust. Trying not to do either of these things has proven hard, because what’s happened is now I rarely write in it. I don’t want to write anything bland or “emo” in there, but I do want to write in it. Then there’s this blog. A few times when I’ve wanted to write something in the journal, the urge to write it for the “public” has been stronger, and it’s ended up on here.
Trick is, I’m yet to find that middle ground. I’m just wondering if there’s anyone else who’s had this trouble, or doesn’t. Do you keep a journal of some form or another, and is it working out for you?
by ZombieSkittles on August 17, 2009
This is an entry from my journal from the 2nd of July 2009 of a dream I had. Looking back, I thought it was weird and that maybe it’d be an interesting read.
I woke up from a nightmare where everyone in my family turned into immortal clowns who wanted to make me one of them, or kill me; I’m not sure which. We were at my grandma’s house in Berri which always seems to be the location where my nightmares are based.
For some reason I had two guns, an indescript shotgun, and a pistol. This made no real sense since I actually couldn’t kill them. They end up congregating outside with me trapped, until I decide to go outside, and throw my gun down and wait until they take me…but then I rewind my dream like I always seem to have the power to do, and we’re all suddenly on the couch. They were still clowns, but we were all having a moment, where they’re all talking normal and we get through it. I can’t remember what was said, but it drove me to tears, then I woke up.
