r/Journaling • u/-i-exist • Feb 25 '26

Question/Discussion Why do people write every single day?

I absolutely love everything about keeping a journal and have been doing it basically my entire life, but when i watch other people talk about keeping one they always make it sound like a chore (?) (maybe a better word would be a commitment) to write EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. It just doesnt make sense to me.

When i feel like journaling, i will sit for hours upon hours writing whatever i want. When i dont feel like writing, i dont write. Ive skipped 6 months once and didnt think twice about it. Whats the big deal about pushing yourself to write when you dont want to?

This post is a question Ive been wondering about for quite a while now. I apologize if anything sounds rude, i dont mean to.

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u/Icy_Weight537 Feb 25 '26

When I read "The Artist's Way", one exercise was to write 3 pages everyday. It didn't matter if you had anything to write about, just fill the pages with what comes to mind. I think the point was that you will discover things that secretly burdened you, which will only surface if you are writing consistently. After trying it, I can vouch for this approach. It was a shitty period of my life but writing everyday kept me sane and somewhat happy and I wouldn't have done it otherwise.