Started this after my journal entries ran longer than it took to actually fall asleep. The rule is 3 lines, no more, in the notebook on the nightstand before the lamp goes off.
Last night the kids were already quiet and I sat down to write about a budget report that bounced back twice at work. Line one was fine. Line two turned into a run-on about the second bounce. By line three I was still mid-sentence and stopped anyway, pen down, lamp off.
16 nights in and the stopping part still feels unfinished, like closing a book mid-chapter. Shorter than it used to be, but not done, just cut off.
Does anyone else use a line limit like this, and if so, how do you make peace with the stop instead of just tolerating it?