It's been one year of writing these journal entries. A long year. There have been times when I've thought about stopping, or at least cutting back to a couple of times a week instead of trying to do an entry each day. Someone once told me, or maybe I read this, that if you do something every day for three weeks it becomes routine and you start doing it automatically. Actually, they were talking about brushing your teeth, though it probably applies to other things.

Still, since I haven't been able to write a journal entry each day for three weeks in any stretch, I haven't been able to prove or disprove that theory. Rarely have I ever been ahead of my journal writing, and for a long time I was never more than three journal entries behind. Nowadays I get a week behind or two behind and I think little of it. Then I spend a couple of weeks trying to write my way back to the current date.

I don't think my writing style has gotten any better. Technically at least, I probably make way too many grammatical mistakes. Too many commas, incomplete sentences, misspellings, and other writing mistakes. What I think has happened is that I've become more conversational when I write. Even when writing tech docs I tend to be a bit too flippant and familiar. It's just my personality shining through I suppose.

One of the things I like about writing is that it lets me think. I can start writing about a subject and let my mind wander and pretty soon I have several paragraphs of nonsense and contradictory musings. I'm always writing what I think, yet seldom it's the truth, just the way I see things. I pick a subject I know little about, fill in the gaps with half-truths and suppositions, and come up with something that sounds ok on paper but won't hold up in court.

I always say that what I write here are the way I see things at that particular point in time. I'll write some opinion piece and next week I'll have changed my mind 180 degrees. I try to capture some of my beliefs and philosophies, but at the time I've never thought about them so I'm solidfying these concepts as I write them and later on I rethink it and sometimes I come to a different conclusion.

What do I think about people reading this? Well, I never thought one person would read these things, let alone two (and hopefully that will be it). It's just sad that there are people out there who would read my poor attempts at writing interesting little tidbits. I certainly wouldn't want to read about someone else's life in gruesome detail. Although anecdotes are entertaining. If you get a chance take a look at Bruce Campbell's web site:

Not only is it informative and complete, it has a lot of Bruce's commentaries on life and the acting business.

I'm of two minds about being corrected. Whenever my brother reads some of the pages on this site, he finds some mistakes. Little errors in my recollection of events. And for the most part I'm of the opinion that this is the way I remember it and that's how I'm writing it. If my memory is wrong, so be it. I know perfectly well that what I'm writing is not exactly correct, but these are my memories and I don't particularly want people to correct me. Well, I guess they can correct me, but don't expect me to go back and make changes to any old pages.

As a final point, let me say that I'm always surprised that people enjoy some of my writings, especially the stuff that is meant to be humorous. I go back and read some of my skits and such and they're very specific and flat in my opinion. So when Shannon or Chris or Donald tells me that they enjoyed some email I sent out, I just kind of look at them and think what the heck do you think you read?