Stream of consciousness: Benefits of writing every day

http://lifehacker.com/5844427/a-sure+fire-approach-to-improving-your-writing-and-getting-over-writers-block

this article, saying that writing on daily basis will help you write in general.  i agree, and that was part of the motivation for keeping this blog up.  okay, sometimes i cheat and if i have more than one idea that's been simmering in my head on a particular day i'll write a bunch of posts so that i have something for the days of drought when it's 11:30pm and i realize i have to put something up here.

unlike the article suggests, sort of, my intent here is quantity over quality: i want 365 posts. some of them are just barely three sentences long and written in a matter of minutes, and a few of them were posts that i actually wrote and edited over the course of several days.

but i have still been practising some of the things the article outlines: don't make this a diary.  this isn't a diary for me about 'this is what i did today' but an attempt to be a little bit more reflective.  not really THAT analytical, except for some of the commercials, and even then a lot of it is just stream of consciousness/raw reactions to something, not necessarily searching my thoughts and challenging my preconceived notions on x y z.

writing something--even if it's drivel-- is better than nothing.  i've gotten better at allowing myself not just to write terribly but to let it be public-- and public in the sense that anyone on the internet can read this.  i like writing drafts, and do the practice of the vomit draft, which is pure stream of consciousness and writing what comes to my head, even if i acknowledge as i'm writing or typing it that it's nonsense, stupid, reveals my smallness in terms of lack of mental capacity, shows that i'm not as smart as i think i am or present myself.  i've written this as such, as pure unedited writing just to demonstrate.  See-- i didn't even capitalize some things or concern myself with grammar, proper syntax or whatever it is called.

it doesn't seem like my writing will improve as a result of this mind-dump but keeping it up every day will, according to this article, still help in the long run.  Right now i have a surfeit of ideas i want to blog about in the future, and i am saving this post for a 'rainy day', for when i don't feel like writing and have no time or energy to write.  cheating, i know, because i SAID i was going to post something every day BUT that doesn't mean i have to necessarily WRITE something every day, hahhahaha loophole! ah, but see, now I feel guilty about this habit of mine and I feel guilty for having revealed this to you, the reader.  okay, so i resolve that from now on i WILL in fact write every day, but i will not necessarily post what i have written that day, for sake of my pride and an attempt to put out better quality posts (excluding this one, of course).