DAY 2 - SOUL WRITING

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This morning, I'm faced with a lot of different decisions & thoughts.  For example:

1.  Do I WRITE, or TYPE when I do soul writing?
2.  WHERE do I soul write? Meaning in a blog?  or in Word?
3.  Do I meditate, and then write ABOUT the meditation (which today was FULL of thoughts and questions and ideas)?  And THEN after that do the soul writing?
Or, is writing about my meditation actually soul writing?

*sigh*

Too many questions & not enough answers.  Perhaps I'm over-thinking.  I should just DO it.  But I might as well do it at least CLOSE to the "right way" so I don't have to later regret starting something in an inferior way, and then changing it later for a better way.

RIGHT???

Story of my life with an analytical brain.  And being a "good speller" and a stickler for grammar and punctuation (WHY, I don't really know), I will spend at least SOME of my soul writing energy correcting my typing.

Which makes me want to do this in Word, since Word will auto-correct, and that will save time.

On that basis, I hereby and now decree that my soul writing will be done in Word, and not here.

I will meditate for an hour, and then arise and type in Word (not here).  This space will be for a blog - whatever THAT might mean for me in future times.

It's a LOT of writing:
1.  Writing in my journal (which has been only now and then, sometimes with months between entries)
2.  Writing my dream journal (which has also been very sparse)
3.  Writing on exmormon.org (which has been sporatic, but perhaps at least weekly)
4.  Writing on FaceBook (which has been minimal, but sometimes significant)
5.  Writing blogs (which has also not been daily, and that's just fine with me.  It's become sort of my journal.)
6.  And now SOUL WRITING, which I hope will be DAILY, and will include 2 sections, with a possible 3rd section, all done in Word:
a.  Meditation thoughts - only if there ARE any.  I very well might sleep through the meditation hour.  But if I don't, and if I have some significant thoughts that bear retention, I'll record thim in this section.
b.  Dream journal - only if there WAS a dream during my sleep that I recall, and only if it's significant.  I will record my dreams in my DREAM JOURNAL.  It'll be easy to switch from my SOUL WRITING folder and my DREAM JOURNAL folder, since they're both Word documents.
c.  Soul Writing, a new Word folder.

That's the plan, Stan.  I'll do it today, and will copy yesterday's SOUL WRITING to the folder as my first day.  Today is my 2nd day.

Fine, that's settled.  I have all day today.  I doubt I'll write all day, but I will try to give it "30 pages" like the author did (Janet Conner, whose book "Writing Down Your Soul" has inspired all this).

Hmmmm, when I read her first chapter, I had the thought that I should re-read it every day, to get her message better.

It's a good idea, but might get in the way of the real SOUL WRITING, so I'll do it today, but might not do it EVERY day.  It depends on how it goes.

And here...we...go!