A-Typical male's journal.

Sometimes, I hate writing about the process of writing or, why I write or the way I write. It's like watching entertainment news. It's news about entertainment. Or it's entertainment about entertainment. Like the E! channel (which I have only flipped past--really). So I hate writing about writing.

But if there was ever a self-referential medium, it's journaling. And I've finally figured out something. Maybe it takes me a while, but I eventually "get" it.

I like to read the journals of people that write everyday, or at least several times a week. Partly because I like reading something everyday, but there is another, more subtle reason. It's because they are more interesting.

One might think that a weekly updated journal might be more refined and interesting. They might be, but they don't pull me in.

A sporadically updated journal (Kind of like what I've been guilty of) might pull me in to the author's life, but I never get any depth. I find it in 'weekend' entries myself. I spend so much time covering what we did, that I can't focus on why we did it, or what I thought about it.

Simply take yesterday's entry as an example. Sure it's long, and it deals with the whole weekend, but I could have written a whole entry just on It's a Wonderful Life, or playing RoboRally, or looking at that beautiful, huge tree.

But I didn't. I was too busy trying to get it all in.

Of course you can do that with a daily journal too. That is get immersed into the details of living. But my routines don't change that much. Once I've talked about it once, I can just talk about the exceptions. Eventually you'll get the picture, if I'm doing my job right.

Then, when things are mostly normal, I can write about the things that concern me. I can pull out the soapbox, or just comment on a leaf. Chezxx wrote me last week, when I was feeling down. She reminded me that she felt like she was writing very deeply, once she got on the every weekday plan. And that's my plan. Every Weekday. Some weekends.

That and a topic list of things to write about, which I've already started.

Generic Joe's A Typical Male