November 13th is World Kindness Day

Readin' and writin' and 'rithmetic

I'm reading about writing.  Yeah, I'm slowly working my way through So You Want to Write: How to Master the Craft of Writing Fiction and Memoir (2nd edition) by Marge Piercy and Ira Wood (2010), which is very appropriate for Nonfiction November.  By the way, even though I am reading some nonfiction, I am not doing the "assignments."  I'd rather read.

"Writing something down is a way of keeping it."  I borrowed this line from a very old post on Colleen's Loose Leaf Notes blog (see #44).  I also found a list online of the benefits of writing things down:

1. Writing things down helps you record everything that has your attention.
2. Writing things down helps clear your mind.
3. Writing things down helps clarify your goals, priorities, and intentions.
4. Writing things down helps keep you motivated.
5. Writing things down helps you recognize and process your emotions.
6. Writing things down encourages daily progress.
7. Writing things down enables a higher level of thinking, and therefore, more focused action.
8. Writing things down develops your sense of gratitude.

"Over to you" is the way that person ended her list.  My thinking is closest to Colleen's, I believe.  I blog so I can keep track of the things on my mind:  the books, the words, the ideas.

The main thing I say about myself (on the sidebar, under my photo) is that "I read to explore ideas."  Writing it down continues my exploration of what's happening.

(Did you find the "arithmetic" in this post?  Sorry, it's only that list of eight numbers above.)

Deb at Readerbuzz hosts Sunday Salon, a

place to link up and to share what we've been doing

and what we've been reading during the week.

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Deb shared in the comments that she had signed up at the Mayo Clinic's site for a month-long program to increase kindness in the world.  Here's the link:

https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/wellness/kindness