How does Yea Forums approach writing in a journal? What's your strategy?
Lately when I think of something I'd like to write about I jot it down in a few words in a list, then sit down in the evening to write. But by that time I'm often too tired and apathetic and barely get through half of the list, or feel what I did write is incomplete. But writing thoughts as they come is too unwieldy and I get overwhelmed.
>Write what you can, when you can, as completely as you can.
>Don't go back to rehash later on.
>Write in the morning/ shortly after waking up.
My grandfather, Lane, had terrible arthritis. His knees were so worn that when he walked they did not bend. He worked near every day, if not in his plumbing business, then in maintaining his farm. He built two different houses, each of them two stories tall. His pain was constant and great. Still, he devoted himself to his craft. Write and read with the same dedication that he lived.
Good luck user, it can be really hard to keep up when you're run ragged by the world.
Blessed post, thanks user I will try this in the morning
My journals usually include notes from books I'm reading and how a certain quote affects my current state. In fear of people finding out and reading it, I do not use the words "I" rather give fictitious names to my current feelings. Yesterday I was really upset that I embarrassed myself whilst I was drunk and wrote in a entry about how shit I feel, how worthless etc and the problems I have with alcohol and trying to show off. But I didn't use "I", see, I just created a fake character and wrote in a short story that is based in the truth but if someone finds my journal I'll be like "nah nigga those are some short stories I'm working on"
Wrote this down while coming up with a list of funny writers for user. Mostly pseud nonsense.
Comedy usually peaks early in a writer. Evelyn Waugh’s best book is Decline and Fall, Kingsley Amis never wrote a funnier novel then Lucky Jim and Philip Roth got better roughly at the same rate as he became less and less funny. This too is often the case for serious writers: Eliot’s Sweeney Erect is an early work while Shakespeare got more and more dark with age.
These writers hoarded their humor. There are 20+ years of observation and scattered memory's that go into something like Decline and Fall or Portnoy's Complaint. Culture plays a huge part, and not just the general culture of the town or the country but that of the local coffeehouse, university dorm, internet message board or society dinner. This kind humor is often worth engaging with, even with other mediocre writers , for the sheer uniqueness of each particular accretion is reliably funny, even in otherwise humorless individuals.
On the other side of this coin are humor generators, the Marx brothers , the professional comedians, the ones who have written their scripts backwards, engineering a system of setups and reveals as formalized french academic painting.
There is of course an art to them; formalized but unpredictable is difficult to achieve, but still, at it’s best one still can feel the buildup rising while still kept on edge, unsure from which direction the punchline will come.
Perhaps this explains the huge appeal of the unscripted content. The humor, however weak, feels fresh. The prevalence of comedy on the box/ internet also helps explain the survival of comedy as a genre. The raw martial is there.
might be onto something there
so... in other words you're a pussy.
no bully
bump
Do people go back and rework their old entries? Whenever i go back to my old journals i end up trying to tighten them up. Not just grammar but rewring whole paragraphs .