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My journaling history
Wednesday, February 5th, 2003 05:18 pm(One in an occasional series of ruminative essays on personal topics.)
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gnomi's LJ panel was the interrelation between online journaling and paper journaling. How many of us keep regular paper journals in addition to LJ, and if we do both, how do we use them differently?
A whole lot of people said they also keep paper journals. I said that I don't. But this reminded me of something I had nearly forgotten about my earlier journaling practices. ( Read more... )
I did keep a paper journal in college, but gradually less and less, until I was only really using it when I had a crisis (usually, I admit, of the romantic kind -- see notes above) and needed to sort things out in it. I still have the last notebook I was using, but I haven't written in it in years.
But now there's LJ. In which I suddenly take up the mission of writing things that I actually think about, in addition to the assorted tsuris of my personal life. Maybe it's that I need to feel I have an audience, that someone is actually listening, in order to bother putting my thoughts out.
At Arisia, one of the topics covered at
gnomi's LJ panel was the interrelation between online journaling and paper journaling. How many of us keep regular paper journals in addition to LJ, and if we do both, how do we use them differently? A whole lot of people said they also keep paper journals. I said that I don't. But this reminded me of something I had nearly forgotten about my earlier journaling practices. ( Read more... )
I did keep a paper journal in college, but gradually less and less, until I was only really using it when I had a crisis (usually, I admit, of the romantic kind -- see notes above) and needed to sort things out in it. I still have the last notebook I was using, but I haven't written in it in years.
But now there's LJ. In which I suddenly take up the mission of writing things that I actually think about, in addition to the assorted tsuris of my personal life. Maybe it's that I need to feel I have an audience, that someone is actually listening, in order to bother putting my thoughts out.