Thoughts on LifeLog vs 750words.com
I want to think aloud on having a public LifeLog and private 750words.com. I see these two platforms serving two different purposes. Morning pages are a nice habit to purge out all the thoughts from one’s head and move ahead in the day. It is a good habit similar to brushing your teeth. Morning Pages can be a palate cleanser for our mind.
But I am sceptical of opening up or publishing morning pages for everyone to view and read. I am vulnerable and I am just dumping my thoughts and I may not even be right. May be, I want a select few people in my life to read all my morning pages. Those few people are someone I really trust and know them well. But I am not comfortable sharing it with the public.
LifeLog is more like a gym. It strengthens your publishing muscle. I am not saying writing muscle consciously. I want LifeLog to be the place where I shed my inhibitions of sharing my thoughts openly and be myself. I know, we have Twitter and newsletter to do the same. Honestly, I dont have a smart answer for it. May be LifeLog is longer than Twitter and I should push things from LifeLog in much more tweetable content.
Another thought is, Twitter and newsletter are our arena. It is the place where we perform and want people to know few facets of my life. LifeLog can be a rehearsal theatre. I publish it to a group of like minded people. Based on their reactions, I perform in social media and newsletter. Very similar to the standup comics, who go to those underground clubs to test their new material, LifeLog is that place.
In that lens, may be streak is not my goal in LifeLog. I want to know what people feel. I want to know how people really read it. That will give me the fodder to tweak the title of post or the tone of the post. Then I can use the content and feedback to write in other platforms for a wider audience.
In short, 750words.com is like a habit to flush my thoughts out however awesome or awful it may be. LifeLog can be the dojo or the dress-rehearsal for social media and wider audience.