In the past months, I’ve found myself writing more in my journal rather than blogging here, and if I had to give a reason why, it would simply be because I find it more enjoyable. There’s something about putting pen to paper – seeing the words fill up the page, that’s very calming to me. I’ve yet to experience that same feeling with my computer, so I’ve been trying to identify strategies to make blogging more entertaining for myself, just as journalling is. And to do so, I first tried to think about what it is about journalling I like.

My journal seems very personal and individualised, with my messy handwriting, creasing pages and little doodles. It’s when I’m writing especially that my stream of consciousness seems to take place, resulting in me writing pages and pages worth of content in my journal, whilst with my blog I can barely muster a few paragraphs.

There’s a few reasons I can think of to justify these differences. The main one being how my blog is on the internet, and with that I feel a sort of pressure for my posts to be perfect! There’s this constant doubt that what I’m writing about isn’t interesting enough, or makes no sense. But when I’m journalling these thoughts never appear, because I of course am the only one who has access to it. It’s been months now, and I still have trouble identifying ideas to write about on this platform, but reflecting now I can see that that’s not the problem I’m having. This issue is me not being able to simply pick one idea and stick with it. I want to try and get rid of the notion that my posts have to be perfect. The main thing is for me to be able to resonate with my writing, and thus having the confidence to post it.