Journal Writing

Are you brave and write what you really think? Do you wonder if someone will read it all, someday, maybe hoping someone will? Do you keep a diary like a personal scrapbook with drawings, mementos, and things cut from newspapers and magazines? A diary is your personal space.

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Dear Diary: Inspiration for Journal Writers

What inspires you to journal, write something personal about your life? People tend to write about the bigger events in their lives. But, when you actually read your old journal entries, the best are those written about an ordinary kind of day. Or a catch up entry which helps you remember everything that was happening at that time in your life. Things you had long forgotten but remember all over again with that little reminder.

Found a new journal writing link:

Journaling Saves – Inspiring prompts and creative guidance to jump-start your journaling.

One Journal Does Not Cover a Lifetime

One very silly thing about journals/ diaries used in film are the fact that although the person has kept this journal for decades it is all still enclosed in just one book. I know this is just not possible. My books are collected in a box. I’ve been writing them on and off since I was a kid. But, in a couple of years I can fill a journal, page by page, quite easily. Even if I skip a few months, or years, there is no way everything could be contained in just one book.

Write about a real journal/ diary as used in a film. How do they explain it being just one book or do you allow for a real journal, with several books written over a lifetime?

What is a Journal if you Can’t Mess Around with It?

What is a journal for if you can’t mess around with it? Sometimes I add something here and think… people will think I’m a dork or… people will be tired of reading about dragons… Well, so what?

This is my place to mess up at will, and I will, frequently and intentionally. You are forewarned. I might even spell things wrong and not look it up to fix it.

So there.

The Diary Survey

This came from an email list I just joined, Online Diaries.

The Diary Survey

  1. What is your current online diary’s URL? (Please provide a link to your diary!)

  2. When did you first start a diary, and why? What did you write about at first? How long have you kept diaries, and was that consistently or just here and there?

  3. Whether your first diary was electric or paper, do you still have it?

  4. Do you read your old diaries? What do you think or feel when you read your really old entries?

  5. What type of writing do you mostly do now? (examples: 1- talk about what happened to me recently, 2- talk about things I think about, 3- talk about relationships, 4- write down dreams, my art, or any other creative thing, 5- complain, 6- write down quotes and interesting things I find such as in the newspaper).

  6. What is more important, the style of the diary or the actual content, and why? What do you like to see in a diary?

  7. Do you edit your entries or do you just let loose and don’t look back?

  8. What are your pet peeves about diaries, such as things that bug you that you notice other people do with their diaries. What bothers you the most about what you tend to do in your diary?

  9. Is your diary anonymous? Why or why not? Do any of your friends or family read your stuff and does that influence what you write about or how you express yourself?

  10. What does keeping a diary do for you? Why do you think that you like it?