Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Writing a little each day tends to make you a better writer. Why?

 Whether you write long hand or print using your hand or type or however you like to write (some people just video what they want to write on their smartphone and then type it up later. Or I suppose you might find a way to have Siri or another voice activated program to do the typing for you. I think that's possible even though I don't do this yet.

So, for now at least I prefer typing on a keyboard on a laptop computer because I can type pretty fast which is about as fast as someone can talk so this works pretty good for me. In the summer when I was 12 I took a course in typing and have never regretted it. I could type accurately between 30 to 50 words a minute at that point. However, as I have typed Term papers ever since I have progressively grown to be a much faster typist over the years.

So, even though at times I have written all in long hand or more specifically printed in long hand I have found I can get much more information out just typing it into a laptop computer usually or my wife's IMac desktop computer.

For example, Arcane or "Memories" was first written (the first Chapter or so) in printed longhand on a Grocery bag while sitting on my front Lawn in Mt. Shasta after I had walked home from a local food store nearby my home then on Lassen Lane where it meets Old Stage Road in Mt. Shasta then in 1980 likely in summer time then.

However, I find that writing some every day keeps the ability to write (which is in some ways sort of like riding a bicycle or driving a car in that it is a technology (on a computer typing) that you have to interface with to accomplish what you are trying to do.

So, this is what I find is that it is helpful to write a little bit every day about whatever subject or subjects you are interested in from your comments about the news to new discoveries of various kinds you might find out about to discoveries of your own that are interesting to you in some way, shape or form.

It often is less important what you are writing about than just that you are writing and getting to know yourself and the world better through your writing.

I find I feel about 75% less fear in my life and I am much more confident in life if I write some every day because for me it clarifies whatever I'm thinking about during the day into a much more coherent and useful way to think about whatever I'm thinking about.

By God's Grace

Note: IF you understand better what is happening to you in your life and you understand what is happening in the world around you, often you feel less fear in thinking about everything because you don't feel so overwhelmed because you have thought about all the things bothering you that you need to think about to make your life work ongoing. 

By God's Grace

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