Blogging: A Form of Journaling?

Hello world! This my intro to my own personal blog, where I will occasionally be dumping my rather strange, rather elusive thoughts into the world. Lots of films, lots of literature, lots of critical and philosophy theory. You are warned. This is a strange insight to my life, but I’m going to roll with it. As a confused intern I’ve done this so much, but here’s some full-on Ashley content.

I’m going to be frank here: I suck at journaling like a proper human being. I’m stubborn, so upon attending my first writer’s conference, I have decided I’m going to journal once again. There was this one session called “Journaling for Authors,” and now I am apparently an expert in this subject (spoiler: I am not).

Recently, within the past week, I bought a beautiful pack of sleek black bullet journals. There were ten. I thought it was a steal, because they were $50, but with my credit card cash-back and an Amazon gift card, I only paid $17 USD. Should I have bought ten journals at once? Probably not. Did I do it anyways? Yes, yes I did.

I want to blog because I suck at journaling. Wow, Ashley, you seem like you’re contradicting yourself here. Well, if you don’t know me in real life, I do this a lot. I also suck at interpersonal communication and thus contradict myself quite a bit. I think it’s because my brain works faster than I can actually speak—the visual I always say is a dehydrated hamster in a wheel. Sometimes too slow, sometimes too fast.

In a journal, I literally only write poetry. I cannot for the life of me write about myself. My therapist had me do that once, and it ended terribly. As a writer, nonfiction was always my biggest struggle. Maybe that ties into the “I suck at communication” bit, but who knows!

And thus, here is my main point: blogging serves as a form of journaling in a different way. Perhaps it’s the K-drama I just watched. Or maybe it’s obsessing over the newest Brazilian literature that’s coming out.

So cheers to new beginnings!

Let’s love—

Ashley