Being in touch with your inner self is the best thing you can do for yourself. There's so much hidden deep in the recesses of your mind that ends up being more useful for your self-disovery than you could possibly imagine
Cheers to writing a journal/diary! I have about 35-40 books of varying sizes filled with entries, going back about 14 years. Although the last 9 years have the most consistent amount of entries. I have been planning to mine them for writing. It is a great resource to have, it's crazy the amount of small stuff you forget about.
Journals and Diaries are excellent wells from which creative writing ✍ can flow. I once took a Writing Workshop on how to utilize one's personal Journals as the starting point for writing pieces of other forms, such as essays, poetry, and novels.
The fact that you were able to describe the events of a flat tire in such a beautiful way is amazing to me. You make something so mundane sound so interesting, it just blows my mind.
It's only now that I actually understand how useful a diary entry can be and add on more absurd value to a story, reminded me a lot of Camus' story telling and description methods. Great!
It is amazing that you managed to make great, cohesive story from such simple event from your life. I loved all thoughts and description off environment along the way. I could never write like you.
Wanted to drop by and thank you for helping to carve out a place for the more human side of the humanities. Word nerds and writers and poets, oh my. I created this account to start some work heavily inspired by your essay reading and these diary entry pieces. You having the honest courage and drive to share helped free me from the fear of starting. Much love!
I try to write fiction every day, but I don’t know if I could write about myself every day. Within just a few days, my writing would become very repetitive. It would basically be me complaining about how I’m depressed, poor, and lonely. However, I do make weekly videos about my writing process. I love talking about writing, but I hate talking about my personal life, even to myself.
I emphasise with a lot of that. Do you think of your fiction as 'personal'? What kind of relationship do you see between the writing and the reality? I often find this a limiting question to be asked, but I'm asking it anyway lol
@@user-fy9fr3bc7v It’s very complicated. Overall, I view fiction writing as an escape from reality. However, I also instill parts of myself into my work, usually on a subconscious level. Sometimes, we can more easily express ourselves through fiction.
maybe you could focus on small things ? like, try and write about something you observed instead of writing about yourself. i usually find it easier to write about a small detail, and it might help you romanticise those tiny things. it’s just a thought of course ! :)
I think it's super cool how we each have our own experiences and how it affects us!! For example, you enjoy writing fiction because you create another universe and anything is possible, I love reading fiction but i cant write it for shittt, but whenever i pick my little notebook up, all I write about are my day to day experiences, my views on them, what I learned, little observations and it's the biggest stress relief for me
I like to find the overarching stories in my week and try to write them as soon as they end. Just to remember my week better, I don't even think I cared about dates, but now I can remember what happened since February. That's so nice I'm thinking about starting something called "shorts", where everyday I write a little dumb story about my day, inspired by you
Yea I love your videos dude found them one day where I needed some direction or advice or some inspiration on my path in this mysterious world thanks man
I just discovered your channel and I became a big fan. I'm in a very different niche but I feel like I could learn a ton from what you share. Keep up with good work!
Know that every day is not a good day for writing but show up for work. Practice self compassion. But show up for work. Writer's block is such an easy excuse. Great writing will knock the living daylights out of you. Everyone should experience it.
Firstly, I love your channel and respect the effort you put into making your videos! The only thing I disagree with you on here is that you need to be at your desk to capture a great story. Personally, I have found that all of my most interesting entries have been written somewhere quite obscure where the environment seeps through into the writing. Maybe next time you get a flat tyre you should journal your way home when caught in the grip of the feeling.
This video made me think, I’m behind in English because of high school. I basically missed 11th and 12th grade English due to the type of school I transferred to. I failed English 001 twice. If I were to learn basic HS composition for writing essays and such I could feel confident taking English 001 again. Where would be a good starting point to be an adult self teaching how to write basic stuff again?
Your last video helped me to began an art project that links photography and daily "personal" writing and this one is so motivating to pursue my art serie ! Thank you. (excuse me if my english isn't perfect I am a french tiny artist)
Are people any different from one another? Any would like to answer that question? Even if you work hard to make something how are you different? No offense here!