Writing on Paper

[atolnon]

I get distracted on a computer - so sue me. I've taken to writing out creative thoughts on a notepad again, despite my real and true love for applications like GoogleDocs and even MS Word. More and more, though, I've taken to writing personal thoughts on a paper journal and I feel like it's done good things for my thought process. What it has done is basically allowed me to write down whatever, without being concerned that others will see it (and locked or not, I don't post things to the internet I don't expect to get out somehow as a rule of thumb). This is mostly just stuff I've said before and I'm trying to make a habit of not being a broken record online. Writing on paper, in a journal, makes me want to add a context, write things out in their entirety, and finish whole thoughts so I'll know what was going on if I read it in the future.

The result is a fairly complicated series of personal revelations mixed in with in-depth notes on weird shit like Magic: the Gathering mana curves, how I want stories to proceed, character summaries, and financial plans. Nothing is indexed and their is no table of contents. Do people go back and annotate paper journals? Add an index? A table of contents? What kind of amazingly nerdy project would that even be?

Comments

[kevins-corner.livejournal.com]

I used to write in many journals, but I transferred most of my entries to my blog for posterity's sake. Still, it's good to write on paper because you do have your privacy.

[atolnon.livejournal.com]

I write an awful lot. A journal, two blogs, a Facebook - when I worked the midnight shift at a call center, I had more to relieve the stress. One is locked, mostly because there's little of interest there and it's a little private and tends to ramble to divulge into nonsense. A lot of that gets put in writing journals where I hash out writing ideas now.