Keep up with my journal

My debate has never been with if it’s worth doing, cause it is. But it’s more getting myself to sit down and write that is my problem.

My solution so far. Make a blog online that acts as my journal and then make it my homepage so I see it every time I use my computer. So far so good.

I have kept a journal for about 8 yrs now…ever since I started high school. I’d written little bits and pieces for trips before this, but it was never consistent. It’s not so much the process of writing that I love, but the results. I love flipping back through my journals…I like to stick tickets and photos and other souveneirs in there too…so its visually exciting too. I hate to have pages with just writing. But I often find that when I’m busy (which creates more things to write about) I abandon my journal, and leave months worth of writing to catch up on. I’d want to make an effort to try and keep up, writing about things as close to when events happened. My greatest fear is losing great memories.

its healthy and make me feel better. you can also go back and look at previous entries and see your progress.

I have really focused on this over the last three years, filling six journals and 3/4 of the way into my seventh. It became easier if I remembered to take it with me all the time—in high school I carried it to class with my textbooks, and now it’s always at the top of the pile on my desk. I have developed my narrative skills and arrived at very interesting psychological understandings of myself through writing. Also, I love going back and re-reading entries I’d forgotten about.

I used to be really good at keeping up with my journal in junior high and high school, but at some point during college my attention that I gave to it somehow kept getting smaller. I’ve had this goal for a couple months at the least and haven’t done anything about it. So three nights ago I started writing in it after almost three months of inactivity. I hope to write in it as often as possible now. It’s really interesting to look back on what was going on in my head throughout the years!

Been doing it since I was little…amazing how the topics changed! haha…

It’s something I enjoy doing it. Every time I feel worried about something or I just need to let sth out…i go there and write, and makes me see the issue or situation from a different perspective. I even draw or post some pictures. It’s my whole life in a paper. It’s been a good way to stay true to myself ‘cause I go back reading some old stuff and helps me realize how much I’ve grown.

I don’t know…when I die, it’ll be nice to leave some printed memories behind

I originally meant to keep a traditional paper journal, but that hasn’t been happening, not at all. The good news is that I am really doing a good job maintaining my personal blog, so much so that I have started a poetry blog and a photo blog as well.

Whether you liked this movie or not doesn’t really matter. Bridget Jones is very timely about her journal entries (literally—in the books, they are all dated with specific times).

I have this problem. I think of great things I’d like to write down, and then when I have finally found some spare time to write it down, I have forgotten whatever it was I wanted to write. What to do, then?

Personally, I plan on trying out this new method of journal-entry. I will carry around my journal and hopefully get a chance to write down the things that pop into my head from time to time.

If this doesn’t work, I have no idea what I’m going to do. Set a specific time to write? Maybe. We’ll see.

I love memories. I believe it’s what makes a person themselves. And coming from the fact that I love writing, I began keeping a journal since practically the time I COULD write. But unfortunatley they’ve been boring useless journals, filled with the same old nothing entries. But recently lifes picked up. I’m getting to the age where lifes interesting and I’m beginning to experience things and have good times. My journals been really productive. I want to keep that up. I fill it with my thoughts, fears, hopes, dreams, ambitions, aspirations, failures, experiences, stories, memories, anecdotes, artwork, anything! I love it. And I know I will love it much later on too. :]

No time to keep up on it