So, I have been writing, scribbling, sketching and possibly hammering the keyboard as a measure of writing that we have become so used to. Sheets and sheets of paper fill my room, notebook after notebooks. Occasionally, I use Ommwriter, this one’s a pretty interesting tool that helps one concentrate as they write – something that technology has taken away from us (too many tabs maybe?). Then it occurred, why not go back to basics and attempt to manifest the streams of thoughts in words.
Writing becomes a way to solidify thought processes, concretize and make connections of the insane number of thoughts that run through our heads every minute of every day. The National Science Foundation has some interesting statistics. We think a thousand thoughts per hour. When we write, we think twenty-five hundred thoughts in an hour and a half. The average person thinks about twelve thousand thoughts per day. A deeper thinker, according to this report, puts forth fifty thousand thoughts daily.
What are some of the rituals that we have in our lives? The great thinkers have inspiring daily rituals have one thing in common, they all bring forth ideas of their own, novel ones, unique and independent in thought, almost revolutionary in their own ways.
Writing is time consuming – No doubt about that. What isn’t when it requires thought? And they said, time doesn’t come to you. It’s what you make time for that’s different.