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dreamflower02 (note: if you want to join, join now: they are locking down membership on Jan 1), and this is the intro entry I posted there.
I started keeping a daily paper journal when I was fourteen; this year I will turn 46. I used to use a journal sold at Woolworths. When all the Woolworths in my area went out of business, I started using the At-A-Glance model SD-385:
I think the fact that I have kept a journal so long and so faithfully is a large part of the reason I went on to become a published novelist. Certainly I learned how to quickly delineate scenes, characters, dialogue. It has been integral to the cultivation of my inner mind.
An issue which I have had to consider is what to do with all my journals after I die. My husband will be allowed to read them if he survives me, and my girls after they reach the age of 21. Other than that, I don't know. I suppose it might be an issue if I have enough of a literary legacy that they are of interest to scholars, or perhaps they might be of interest to a historical society.
I have been very faithful. I will skip a day now and then, but I probably make an entry 95% of the time. Probably the longest period of time I have missed was two weeks.
I keep a Moleskine book in my purse and use those for jotting down notes, phone numbers, bits from books I'm reading in bookstores but don't want to buy.
And I keep this LiveJournal, and I print out entries having to do with my family life or my children and bind those. So I'm living a pretty well-documented life.
embodiment from dreamflower02 (note: if you want to join, join now: they are locking down membership on Jan 1), and this is the intro entry I posted there.I started keeping a daily paper journal when I was fourteen; this year I will turn 46. I used to use a journal sold at Woolworths. When all the Woolworths in my area went out of business, I started using the At-A-Glance model SD-385:
I think the fact that I have kept a journal so long and so faithfully is a large part of the reason I went on to become a published novelist. Certainly I learned how to quickly delineate scenes, characters, dialogue. It has been integral to the cultivation of my inner mind.
An issue which I have had to consider is what to do with all my journals after I die. My husband will be allowed to read them if he survives me, and my girls after they reach the age of 21. Other than that, I don't know. I suppose it might be an issue if I have enough of a literary legacy that they are of interest to scholars, or perhaps they might be of interest to a historical society.
I have been very faithful. I will skip a day now and then, but I probably make an entry 95% of the time. Probably the longest period of time I have missed was two weeks.
I keep a Moleskine book in my purse and use those for jotting down notes, phone numbers, bits from books I'm reading in bookstores but don't want to buy.
And I keep this LiveJournal, and I print out entries having to do with my family life or my children and bind those. So I'm living a pretty well-documented life.