re: december 3 etc (part one)

For a while I wondered if changing when I wrote would change the texture of the thoughts or the prose before smacking my forehead because the answer is yeah, duh, of course it does. Writing at the end of the day as opposed to in the middle feels more like a journal entry because it is more of a journal entry.

I think a journal entry is best when it's a "this is what I learned today via all the things I did today, by which I mean on this day, my whatever thousandth day on earth, a bunch of stuff clicked into place and I expanded my whatever by whatever %."0

I've been thinking about my own writing practice and coming across 🫠 combatdavey and reading their reflection on their writing portion in this introductory bit made a lot of sense to me. I don't necessarily grade my experience in life by some measure of expansion, but I do like that framing over some sort of reportage on my day-to-day. I think I'm splitting a hair, but I would think of the journal entry as reflection rather than accounting, which is what I want (and suspect I need in a sense).

Anyway, just a quick post to say that I think I will shifting to carving out a block of journaling at the end of the day, rather than doing it sporadically, and also attempt to get into a daily practice. I'll keep doing my weeknotes; I like that sort of summative exercise and I think they'll be a nice complement to my other posts (as they have been) for thinking again on things.