#JusJoJan: Write

Just Jot It January 1 Minute

Well, we’ve made it to the end of another Just Jot It January, the brainchild of the amazing Linda Hill, who has come up with this in addition to Stream of Consciousness Saturday and One-Liner Wednesday. Again, thank you, Linda, for giving all of us bloggers further opportunities to write…

Which is the very apropos final prompt for the month, write.

I think I was discouraged about writing in my teens and twenties, because I was made to feel as though I wasn’t much of a writer. It wasn’t until I reached my mid-30’s that I felt comfortable enough to write and I began to journal. Then with the advent of the Internet, I discovered further opportunities to write, most notably the now-defunct Ghostletters mailing list, which I ran for close to ten years and watched it peter out.

After my stroke, I thought, well, that’s that, and thought that typing with one hand would be impossible, as writing with a pen had become. I could still write code, though, and emails were fairly easy, but I hadn’t tried going back to writing stories and the like. Until one day, I decided "screw this noise!" and decided that I would suffer through typing with one hand to start writing again. The result? I now type faster with one hand than I did with two, albeit with many more typos.

I tried blogging a couple of times after that, all of which were a disaster and were deleted completely rather quickly. I had started with Blogger, which I soon realized annoyed the hell out of me (sorry, Blogger fans). Eventually, I took the plunge with WordPress in 2011, using that as a private journal before deciding that it was time I exposed the blog to the rest of the world.

And I’ve been writing here ever since, writing at least one blog post a day since July 1, 2014. Thanks to you kind folks, I also have readers, some of whom actually like reading what I write. Thank you!

So, that ends Just Jot It January for another year.

Published by John Holton

Internet disc jockey, lover of old TV (especially the commercials), inveterate wise guy.

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23 thoughts on “#JusJoJan: Write”

  1. Pingback: The New Mini Week That Was – The Sound of One Hand Typing

  2. I started writing on LinkedIn and grew tired of writing business-oriented posts, especially once I retired. Then I discovered WordPress and have been here since 2015.

    I love your down-to-earth way of writing. Keep up the good work.

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  3. I started with LiveJournal, back in the day you had to get a code from another blogger to join. Then I did WordPress, then blogger, then back to WordPress. I might have had Tumblr in there somewhere.

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      1. That sounds about right. I still have my account. Itmisnwhere my sister and I both journeled. It is nice to still be able to go back and read her words.

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  7. Blogging daily since 2014… Wow. That is a brag-worthy achievement. I’ve blogged twice a month on Blogger since 2013-ish and shamefully sporadically on WordPress since 2012-ish. I much prefer WordPress. I roll up my metaphorical sleeves and step in swinging to get my blogger posts readable. Every. Single. Time. I haven’t embraced WordPress’ ‘Gutenberg’ format. I’m still in Classic Editor (or whatever it’s called). Anyway, nice culminating article for JusJoJan.

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  8. Now I loved this – “screw that noise” is quite the motto which I have borrowed from you to use because it fits well with oh so many occasions.

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    1. What always got me with Blogger is that you’ll be typing along, look up and realize that half of what you typed is lost because it autosaves about every 15 seconds,locking everything until it’s finished. I took to writing everything in a text editor and pasting it into Blogger. That was a whole lot extra work.

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