Blog vs Journal
Thanks to Maria from The Writer’s Perspective for spotlighting Roughly Speaking as part of her Project 20/20.
She asked how I keep up the pace of my blog. About six months after I started blogging I realized I barely wrote in my private journal anymore. Blogging sort of replaced that writing time.
I panicked, because I don’t blog the same way that I scribble in a notebook. My journal has rants and raves (I try not to blog in moments of emotional passion…but private journaling, heck yeah), as well as the nitty gritty events in daily life. All this comes in handy when I’m writing an essay. It helps me remember details -- I ate a bruised peach that day or I called my husband at the office to talk about taking the dog to the vet or I had a dream about trying to solve an impossible math problem on the chalkboard.
Sometimes I can use those details in a piece, sometimes I can’t. But it’s helpful to have a record of them.
So I’ve tried to pick up journaling again. What do other bloggers do?
posted by Jenny at 3:56 PM
7 Comments:
Wow, Jenny! What awesome link love! You deserve it!
8:20 PM
I'm with you Jenny! I NEVER blog during moments of emotional passion.
; )
Wouldn't you hate to see my uncensored material?
8:29 PM
Thanks Gift of Green!
And Michelle, yes, I'd love to see your uncensored material. Hee hee.
8:57 PM
Journaling has become the domain of the pure emotional life that exists inside of me. Often, with some perspective, some of that spills on to my blog posts (okay, a lot of it), but the journaling is really so distilled down to emotional exclamation points now that I blog that it barely exists other than as a boilerplate for future writing exercises. In a way, I'm glad. There isn't evidence of my true insanity anymore. ;-)
12:12 PM
I noticed that since I started the blog, I didn't journal as much. However, in the past few months I have made a point to keep it right by my bed, and write. I do write so much more than I blog, and I think I was missing it. Good point!
10:42 PM
Journaling is important. And, no, I can't journal on the blog. But, I wish I could -- I do. Because I think journals are such an important part of our history. So we must do both.
5:58 PM
Yes, doing both is a good advice.
The responsibility that comes when your blog starts picking up regular readers almost defeats the purpose you set when you decided to write the blog in the first place. A bummer, indeed.
When that happens, you can also create a new private blog in which you can write to your heart's content and not edit the non-politically correct parts. You just have to make sure when you grant access.
Cheers.
10:00 AM
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