Writing

Throughout my life, I have attempted to start some sort of journaling, whether it be in a paper journal, a blog, or what have you, numerous times. Every time, I have failed to maintain even an irregular writing habit. I may start out well, but I will eventually slack off, and lose steam. It’s not that I don’t have any ideas; it’s just that I never get around to actually sitting down and fleshing them out, or, when I do, I’m never satisfied with what I end up writing.

I think my main problem is that I don’t treat writing as a discipline. I do it whenever I get around to it, which means whenever other stuff is going on, I don’t do it. I may intend to write one entry a week or something, but then I get busy with other things, and the week goes by and I haven’t written anything. Then, the next week, I get busy again, or I end up playing video games or watching DVD’s or something, and another week goes by without an entry. When I finally do sit down to write something, I may get it half-written, and then get distracted by other things, and never come back to it.

For the future, I think I am going to try to start treating writing more like a discipline. Because I’ve been getting up at 5am every morning lately with my wife (who leaves early for work to beat the traffic), I’ve decided that I can start trying to get up early on Saturday mornings (not as early, but maybe early enough to see the sunrise) and sit down with a cup of coffee and set aside an hour to write something. In other words, I will try to post an entry here at least once a week. It may be a treatise on some philosophical topic (if so, it likely won’t be very good), or something more banal like what I had for breakfast this Thursday, but I will get something written.

At least, that’s my goal. We’ll see how well it works.