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...not a diary, which I think of as an "I did this today," and "I did that today," affair, but a journal in the sense of recording thoughts and opinions on whatever strikes you, not necessarily a report of your daily activities, although if these prompt interesting thought processes, then so be it...
Anyway. While pootling around a shopping mall during my lunch break today, I spotted a shop that sold Pretty Notebooks. So pretty were they, that they deserve capitalisation. Suedebound, sewn, not glued or stapled to the spine, embossed with NOTEBOOK on the cover...for five pounds. Expensive for an A5 unlined notebook of course, but...I'm tempted. I'm a sucker for not mere office supplies, but PRETTY office supplies.
But what to use it for? I thought I could buy one and used it for poetry, but I already have a moleskine for that.
So I decided, next time I pass that shop when it's open (not tomorrow unfortunately; even though my shop is open and I'm working, this other one won't be open 'til Monday, my day off, so I'll have to wait 'til Tuesday...blah blah...boring, huh?) I'll buy one, and use it as a journal.
Simply my thoughts and musings. Never to be shown to anyone. Just 100% for me. And if no-one else will ever see it, then I can afford to be 100% honest with myself.
Then I remembered my 'unsent letters' thread which I started the other day, asking if anyone else wrote letters and emails they never sent, and I thought perhaps I could make my journal epistolary.
So I wondered if anyone else did this. Similar to my last thread, but it's an idea to throw out there. Rather than writing letters and binning them, or burning them - do you keep them to yourself, perhaps collected in one place or notebook? Does anyone address their journal to someone in particular? Different people as the mood or need strikes you? Do you keep poems as part of your journal?
If you keep one, in what sort of style do you write it?
I've already made up my mind what I'm going to do, but I thought it was an interesting question to throw out there to see if journalling is popular, how often people write in theirs, why they do it, what benefits they see and so on.
Forgive the rambling, I'm a bit tired but I wanted to start this thread before I went to bed and forgot all about it!
Anyway. While pootling around a shopping mall during my lunch break today, I spotted a shop that sold Pretty Notebooks. So pretty were they, that they deserve capitalisation. Suedebound, sewn, not glued or stapled to the spine, embossed with NOTEBOOK on the cover...for five pounds. Expensive for an A5 unlined notebook of course, but...I'm tempted. I'm a sucker for not mere office supplies, but PRETTY office supplies.
But what to use it for? I thought I could buy one and used it for poetry, but I already have a moleskine for that.
So I decided, next time I pass that shop when it's open (not tomorrow unfortunately; even though my shop is open and I'm working, this other one won't be open 'til Monday, my day off, so I'll have to wait 'til Tuesday...blah blah...boring, huh?) I'll buy one, and use it as a journal.
Simply my thoughts and musings. Never to be shown to anyone. Just 100% for me. And if no-one else will ever see it, then I can afford to be 100% honest with myself.
Then I remembered my 'unsent letters' thread which I started the other day, asking if anyone else wrote letters and emails they never sent, and I thought perhaps I could make my journal epistolary.
So I wondered if anyone else did this. Similar to my last thread, but it's an idea to throw out there. Rather than writing letters and binning them, or burning them - do you keep them to yourself, perhaps collected in one place or notebook? Does anyone address their journal to someone in particular? Different people as the mood or need strikes you? Do you keep poems as part of your journal?
If you keep one, in what sort of style do you write it?
I've already made up my mind what I'm going to do, but I thought it was an interesting question to throw out there to see if journalling is popular, how often people write in theirs, why they do it, what benefits they see and so on.
Forgive the rambling, I'm a bit tired but I wanted to start this thread before I went to bed and forgot all about it!