I keep a paper journal independent of my posts, public and private, here. My thoughts organize themselves differently when I am handwriting as opposed to typing. I have thirty or forty by now, even after the post office lost some a few years ago.
My journals are sporadic. Years will go by with a dozen or two posts total, and then I'll have a six-month period where I fill hundreds of pages. The longest it's ever taken to fill 196 pages is three years. The shortest is three months. I don't use anything with dates because a single day can either have nothing or fifteen pages associated with it.
Occasionally I sketch. In the past I have filled them with ephemera -- tickets to movies, business cards, menus from restaurants, gift cards, pictures from magazines. I also include lists of things to do, possible Christmas lists, etc. That's always a lot of fun to go back to, because it gives a much more complete view of the days. It does mean they don't look quite as tidy on the shelf, since they get sort of fat.
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My journals are sporadic. Years will go by with a dozen or two posts total, and then I'll have a six-month period where I fill hundreds of pages. The longest it's ever taken to fill 196 pages is three years. The shortest is three months. I don't use anything with dates because a single day can either have nothing or fifteen pages associated with it.
Occasionally I sketch. In the past I have filled them with ephemera -- tickets to movies, business cards, menus from restaurants, gift cards, pictures from magazines. I also include lists of things to do, possible Christmas lists, etc. That's always a lot of fun to go back to, because it gives a much more complete view of the days. It does mean they don't look quite as tidy on the shelf, since they get sort of fat.