I love electronic journaling – I’ve always been rabidly addicted to words, madly infatuated with punctuation, spelling, grammar… Through my keyboard, I explore me.
But, I’m finding, it takes more than just me and my keyboard – it takes outside interaction with other people. I need that interaction, because it forces me to think in different directions, to explore new questions – questions I didn’t even know I had lurking inside me.
And I need all different types of interaction – Email/post, IM or chat, phone, and in person. Each style of communication touches a different part of my personality…..
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Email or Post: This is where the thoughtful side comes out – where I can read and re-read the words, both yours and mine, constructing my reply carefully and thoughtfully. A flourish here, a simile there, a descriptive phrase inserted and another one taken away…….writing is as deeply moving for me as sculpting or painting or music for another – my words are my art, when the muse is flowing I catch a glimpse of my personal Nirvana.
I explore myself deeply when I’m employing this type of communication, and I explore the one I’m speaking with, as well – getting a feel for the emotions behind the written word. Make no mistake - there are emotions behind the keyboard – strong ones, if you let yourself feel them.
As a sidebar here - I’m forcibly reminded right now of a quote that was posted on the bulletin board in my high-school creative writing class – it’s potent, and has stayed with me for the 26-odd years since I first laid eyes on it:
‘Writing is easy – you just sit at your typewriter and bleed.’
It is a perfect summation of what I go through each and every time I set fingers to keyboard.
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I’ll explore other avenues of communication in later journal entries, because each of them is an entry in with its own merits, deserving of its own posting.
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