From Journaling To Blogging
Not as easy as it might seem.
There came a time in my many years of journaling that I thought I could easily write a blog post when I was ready to. I thought this until I tried. Then I found out the truth…
Just because one has spent lots of time writing their heart out in journals doesn’t mean they can automatically create an engaging blog post.
As I began to try out blogging, being able to write at length on a subject, and to make the entire piece cohesive, I found it didn’t come very quickly, or easily to me. It only came about with more time, practice, and intention.
This was because, as a journal writer, I would write in any old fashion I wanted to, much of it had no structure. Some of it did, but most of it did not. Much of it was just ideas, or fragments of thoughts. Even more of it was complete “stream of consciousness” type writing.
Putting together a blog post was an entirely different animal. I had to develop different skills, and ways of thinking in order to construct one. My beginnings were clumsy, and slow. I could only create maybe a few short paragraphs on a subject, and then I didn’t know what else to write. It wasn’t like my normal “stream of consciousness” writing in which I could easily fill pages, and pages. It was frustrating.
