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Starting a journal when you don’t write
Writing is talking on paper. You talk all the time.
But. I. Don’t. Write!
“I don’t write. When I text, it looks like ‘C U @ 8.’ I’ll call somebody before I leave them a note. Journaling is not for me.”
Writing is talking on paper. You talk all the time. You probably talked during the above-mentioned phone call.
Writing in cursive is awkward until your hand relaxes and starts doing what you want without being told. That’s what it’s like after you get used to it and it happens a lot faster than you think. You think of something to say and the pencil or pen writes it without arguing.
Let’s digress for a moment and talk about handwriting.
If you didn’t learn cursive in grade school you were robbed. I know writing in cursive is sometimes seen as old fashioned (and in some ways it is) but it’s easier and faster than printing. When you get reasonably good at it, the words just flow out of the pen with the ink.
Also, it’s the way grown-ups write. Printing is for small children with developing motor skills. Adults write fast and furious in a flowing script, especially when we are writing for ourselves.
