I Don't Like Reading What I Write in My Journal
Hating your writing can be a common feeling amongst people who keep a daily writing habit. Don't get discouraged. There are ways to fight this feeling.
Hating your writing can be a common feeling amongst people who keep a daily writing habit. Don't get discouraged. There are ways to fight this feeling.
The short answer: No, you don't have a problem.
The long answer is more complicated.
If you write every day, you write about a lot of topics. When you write that much, it can be common to hate some of it.
You have to write a lot of garbage before you can write the good stuff.
Basically, it's normal.
Don't be so hard on yourself. Don't worry there's something wrong with you or your writing sucks.
If you love writing, keep doing it.
There's nothing more applicable than KISS, the design principle coined by the U.S. Navy.
Remember, it's possible to build a daily writing habit by starting small and embracing the bad.
If you like to write but don't like to read what you write, just don't read it. Keep it simple. Focus on the part you love and skip the parts you don't.
Keep your old pages and set them aside. Fight the urge to read them.
One day you might feel right reading your daily entries, but for now, press the skip button.
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