This is a post about nothing. I honestly felt like writing to make myself feel better about the six other untouched drafts currently sitting in my folder.

Out of curiosity, how do other people write (more specifically, blog posts)? How do you record your ideas, and when do you decide that you have gotten your point across?

I can rarely sit down in one sitting to create a solid outline or even a draft. Instead, I collect random thoughts over the course of several weeks, adding to my drafts whenever something sparks my interest or crosses my mind. To be clear, this is something that I want to do, and I know I’m not obligated to create content. I just can’t figure out why I’m struggling to do something that I want to do.

When I do manage to sit down and write, I end up doing it by hand (well, on my iPad but same idea) and once I feel like I have enough written I’ll start converting my writing to text and will start editing from there.

I know this method is inefficient and a little chaotic, but I guess that’s what makes the most sense to me.

It takes longer, but something about scribbling my stream of consciousness instead of typing it out grants me this weird sense of freedom. When typing I feel like things need to be polished and I can barely write four sentences before I feel the need to delete and rewrite my work.

I’m also scared that I’m losing my ability to write without a keyboard. I don’t know if anyone else has this problem and I’m a little scared to admit it, but it feels like my ability to spell is based on muscle memory from typing. Even without using spellcheck, I find myself not second guessing the spelling of a word compared to the simple spelling mistakes I make while writing by hand. I often wonder how my dependence on technology has slowly eroded the educational foundation I’ve spent years and unfortunately thousands of dollars building. I don’t know. It feels like I’m losing something that I didn’t think could be lost.

But anyway, I’m just writing to write. I still don’t know how to end blog posts so I guess I need to practice that as well…So, bye for now I guess?