I’ve written about how I’ve never kept a journal. But here’s what I didn’t think to mention until a few moments ago:
I have bought, and have been given, many journals. I now have stacks of them that I love. All around my study. And they’re all blank.
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 365 true things about me
why this daily practice
Haha. I used to do this too. I personally bought 3 really beautiful and simple Japanese-made journals because I thought they were beautiful. And so… I didn’t want to mess them up by writing in them. Somehow though I went ahead and started about a year and a half ago – in order to start writing fiction by hand (or to get ideas out by hand). I filled one up, then another, now I’m devouring my blank pages. All of them area almost full. I’m not a journaler either, but I’ve learned to start writing by hand and using the elements given me to get my words out. 🙂
Wow, Megan, you converted : ) Maybe I can too. I have a beautiful cornflower yellow Moleskine that I just moved from a shelf to my desk…
I do that too. And like Megan used to, I don’t want to spoil them by writing something inside that might be unworthy of them. Mine are in desk drawers, though — so as not to remind me they’re still blank.
Ha, we clearly all belong to the same club : )
Have you started using the yellow one, Cynthia? Love to hear about your movement into using them. 🙂
I have, Meg : ) And no rules about writing everyday or anything. On one page I’ve written a few phrases that stood out to me and on another, a couple of thoughts about this project. So far, I like having it beside me. We’ll see…
It’s funny—I absolutely LOVE journals! I love the covers, the different type pages, just everything, including their purpose! I’ve never been successful at it though. I’ve tried in the long ago past, but can’t make it last. A few days, maybe a week or two—that’s it. So—I never buy them and thank goodness no one buys them for me! I regret not having kept a journal, but I do have something that can at least “bring me back”—my datebooks! I save them all 🙂
Donna, I love the outsides of journals and the insides too. Love them. And ha, I save all my datebooks too!
lol…why does this NOT surprise me? 😉
This is such a great post! I am terrible at keeping up with any sort of daily journaling, but I do try to write when I can, and I encourage my kids to do it now (hopefully it will become habit for them!), because I think its a great way to record and interpret what is going on around us!
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much, LadyDeeJay. I appreciate your taking the time to leave a comment, and I hope you’ll be back.
That is funny! I’ve kept journals since I was a child, but since I started blogging, I rarely write in my journal. I find the old ones useful for remember the mindset of myself as a teen while writing YA.
And so telling, I think, Sarah. You’re lucky to have kept those journals. I would love to be able to revisit my younger self.
The biggest reason I would’ve wanted journals from my younger self would be to bring me back to that age to be better in touch with the age group for writing. I know it’s served many a kidlit author!
Donna, it seems that’s the way Sarah is using them, but as for me, I would be so interested to know who I was then : )
As for me…naive. VERY naive. I think I was out of high school before some stuff started sinking in. I always wanted to believe the best in people and almost always got screwed/hurt in some way, some pretty big, but my skepticism and cynicism has grown pretty steadily since back then. Certainly much more carefree as is with most young people, I think, or at least was back then before the internet!
Can we get another resounding “Me, too!”? I think we can.
: )