Journals

[Mike_D202]

Do any of you actually write in a journal? I'm talking about the real hardcover books, not the online digital blogs. I dusted off my old journal that I've had since I was 18 and haven't written in it since 2004 (in fact I'm not very good at expressing myself, which resulted in only 3 pages in the book being written in it to cover a 3 year span lol). My fiance' leaving me the other day after a 3 year relationship compelled me to try and write in it again. Its a little theraputic, and humorous reading the entries that I've written in there when I was a teen.

 

[Bnightwing]

I am actually just started one and it is waaay better than a blog, because a blog is just wining about things online for all to see.

 

[Manic]

I had one up until everyone thought it was a slam book in junior high. As if any of them were worthy of being written about.

 

[thedeadite]

I found journal writing to help me through some of the most depressing/hard times in my life.
It's very theraputic to get your emotions out of you and into some other form.
You can't always tell someone what you really want to, or talk to anyone about certain things, but you can always "tell" them to your journal.
With that, my journal writing usually slowed and stopped as I worked through these problems.
Unfortunately so did my poetry/song writing. I just can't seem to write when I'm not devastated or pissed off.

 

[thedeadite]

double...




...everytime it takes forever to load it always double posts (and no i don't hit submit twice)

 

[knowsbleed]

Sorry to hear about your fiance leaving you...


... but in the end... it's probably a good thing.

 

[Majic Walrus]

I write in a journal, but it's all fiction.

 

[Immortalfire]

My mom always suggested that I have one as a kid, but I never understood what exactly I was supposed to write about.

 

[Bill]

I keep a journal for my daughter that's sort of like a baby book except that it will extend as long as there are pages. I made it like a grail diary in which I keep photos, newspaper clippings, tickets and whatever else that has some significance to her. For instance, I have a flower petal that fell from a tree in her lap while walking through a park in China in the pages, and the newspaper article that listed where she was left and if there was anyone that wanted to claim her. Stuff like that.

I liked the grail diary concept so much that I sent the idea to people who made journals and they now sell it.

 

[GoblinWhirlwind]

As of late I've actually considered starting one. Just for getting whatever musings I might have on paper, or for keeping certain experiences sharp in my memory. I procrastinate on just about everything, so I haven't given it much thought beyond that.

 

[knowsbleed]

I keep a journal for my daughter that's sort of like a baby book except that it will extend as long as there are pages. I made it like a grail diary in which I keep photos, newspaper clippings, tickets and whatever else that has some significance to her. For instance, I have a flower petal that fell from a tree in her lap while walking through a park in China in the pages, and the newspaper article that listed where she was left and if there was anyone that wanted to claim her. Stuff like that.

I liked the grail diary concept so much that I sent the idea to people who made journals and they now sell it.

What's the story behind the bolded section?

 

[04nbod]

I used to as a mid teen but I would never read it again

 

[JewishHobbit]

Knowsbleed your avatar rocks!

Now, as for journals. I've kept one full journal for about a year, but it was all imaginary. Basically, I decided my life was too boring but I wanted to write daily to practice. So, I created a character named Anthony who had amnesia who started keeping a diary, and it was his diary. I didn't plan ahead, I just made it up as I went and if anything important or entertaining happened to me then it happened to Anthony. The fun part was that I set it in a fantasy world. So it ended up being Anthony's thoughts during his quest to discover who he is and the people he meets along the way. If I went a week without writing, I wrote a reason for it in his next entry. I once went two months without writing. The last entry had him stuck in a hole in a cave with no way out. So the next entry was someone finding Anthony's dead body and continuing his quest for the shear adventure of it.

It actually turned out to be a lot of fun.

Note: in the end, Anthony ended up being a prisoner from a neighboring dimension on the brink of war that escaped and was trying to find his way back to the rebellion. He found his wife and daughter on a beach and was running to them when an explosion killed them and through him into the water, where he was swept through a passageway into our world. The explosion caused him to lose his memory and now he's in the afterworld with his family. Oh, and the journal passed through about four people before everything was solved. I wasn't the best at keeping up with the thing.

As stated above, I didn't plan anything. I wrote as I thought. Thus, I had no idea what caused Anthony's amnesia when I started or where the story was going to go or who anyone was before he met them. Thus, it's fun to see where it goes. It actually helps motivate me to write it in daily, even if it's just a line or two.


I've actually started a second one a few months ago and forgot about it until just now. I think they're soldiers on the bad side of a war and the main writer is one of the harsher generals. I should go back and continue that one. I wonder why he hasn't written in months? And I'm thinking the last entry had him on his way to the next battle... that could explain a lot!

 

[GoblinWhirlwind]

So in other words it was just an elaborate story you made up as you went along? I dunno if it could actually be called a journal, but interesting either way.

 

[SLVRSR4]

I write an entry about once a month not interesting enough for an everyday thing.

 

[JewishHobbit]

So in other words it was just an elaborate story you made up as you went along? I dunno if it could actually be called a journal, but interesting either way.

It was written as if Anthony was writing in his journal and I tried to keep the minor things in my life detailed in Anthony's story. Example: I was sick one day and stayed home from work. Anthony was sick and spent the day resting instead of continuing on his quest. Another time my pen died mid writing and I had to switch to a new one, which surprised me with red ink. Anthony's ink ran dry and so he began writing with the blood of some creature he just killed. Etc. My dog got ahold of my journal and chewed half the cover off. The next entry had Anthony explaining how a wolf attacked him and the journal got the worse of it when the wolf chewed off the leather cover (the real journal was leather). Etc.

It was a fake journal of someone else.

 

[GoblinWhirlwind]

That actually sounds kinda cool.

 

[Bill]

What's the story behind the bolded section?

They gave us each a newspaper clipping that including an article with pictures of 17 babies that were found that day along with estimated birthdates and the address of where they were left. The clipping was in Mandarin, so there was a translation written below it.