I'm gonna look at it when I'm older and show it to my kids! I always start out with like Monday April 7 2008 or something like that then I put dear diary
I started a diary when I was in 4th grade and mostly just wrote about school and stuff then in 6th, 7th , and 8th grade I wrote about boys, crushes, friends, family, favorite teachers, special events or events I want to remember like when my cousin was born or when I went to six flags and fun activities in my class! Also when I'm mad I talk about the people I'm mad at and take it out on the diary I had an 11 page entry once and sometimes they are 1 page! I am on my 3rd one now and I'm gonna loo
I write about everything. :) what I do from keeping myself to want to write in my journal all the time is that I make time for other things during the day to distract myself. Like hobbies and stuff if that's what you mean. I think it's good though that you have so much to talk about though that you write a lot. Maybe give yourself an hour a day to write. And by the end of that hour you stop.
I write obsessively. I write about anything and everything. I write mine as letters to a man who doesn't exist...I don't know how many other people do that, I know a bunch of people write "dear diary," though, so I guess it's like that. I've written like this since December 1, 2007, and each journal lasts me about 3 months. Does that answer your questions?
@TheBrainSponge That doesn't answer all of them, but don't worry about it. I've received enough responses. lol. I tend to just start writing on random, different subjects. I usually don't pretend to address it to someone, but I guess that's up to personal preference. Cheers.
I write about everything that has happened not to me but in the world. I mine a journal because calling a diary is a girl thing and I think that journals are a man's thing. I do vent an awful lot and I write as much as six to eight pages a day. At this moment I have written at 3,000 pages and I do incorporate pictures of storms and news of the day. I also use a computer to write.
I write about everything that has happened not to me but in the world. I mine a journal because calling a diary is a girl thing and I think that journals are a man's thing. I do vent an awful lot and I write as much as six to eight pages a day. At this moment I have written at 3,000 pages and I do incorporate pictures of storms and news of the day.
I have kept a journal on and off for year but on a regular basis now for the last four years if you are worrying about filing a book too fast may I recommend Diary suite 4 it has free and paid versions and you just download it and your entries are stored in a password protected file that you can later export into word it allows you to categorize your entries too I love it hope that helps
This isn't going to be terribly specific but in answer to the question in your vid: All of the above. I have kept a journal for ten years and I've done EVERY type of writing you mention in your video. I find that when you do that you find you go through phases of say writing personal ventings for a few weeks or writing deep stuff for a month or whatever. And those phases themselves are like extra layers of information the journal then contains.
@kevinbreeman thank you, Kevin. Yeah, I've decided to settle on that approach, too, but not make it too extensive and draw it out. You only right about your most important thoughts or the most important parts of your day (or if it was uneventful or boring, nothing at all.). Thanks for the input. :)
@treehugrurthluvrsupr Hey man. I just thought of this vid recently again after experimenting with keeping monthly/yearly summaries in my journal. It's kinda cool what you can find when you end each month in your journal with a summary of what happened that month, and then do the same for each year. Just thought I'd pass that on to you.
I keep a journal, and honestly I think that you shouldn't limit yourself. A personal journal is meant to help you vent about your problems, talk about your hopes and dreams and also to write about issues of the world. When I was younger I thought that keeping a journal/diary was only to write about crushes. As I grew older, keeping a journal became an important part of my life and I started writing about everything that matters to me. Sometimes I even write poetry in my journal
I keep a journal, I write in what happens during the day and my thoughts and feelings, and even add in things to cherish the moments such as theater tickets.
dude cool video, and i just write about what i obsreve, i find that if i write about what i did, it gets boring fast. I write what i am thinking, i let my mind flow through my pen. you should too. hope this helped a bit. later man.
i have tons of journals ive kept, i love doing it its a passion. in my oppinion, you can never write too much, unless you mean thats all you do with your life ? if i have a lot to write about one day, ill sit down for a long time and write as much as i want. sometimes ill take up so many papers ill be afraid of already running out .... and i usually just write about what is bothering me, or what is making me happy. sometimes ill write as if im writing a letter to someone thats been bothering me
@kelslaliberty thanks for your input! :) That actually seems like a good approach as long as you have the time for it. I might try to start keeping one soon (after midterms are done with that is)
I've kept one for about 5-6 years now, at first the entries were just "Today I went for a walk" but then i'd write about my reaction to the walk so to speak and slowly as I got older it was less what i'd done that day and more how I felt about what happened that day. I would also include goals and personal views and beliefs about things. Sometimes I just enjoyed the motion of writing.
My rule of thumb was once i'd felt as though i'd let out what i was trying to say then i was done.
I've lost touch with my inner self, thoughts, emotions, and feelings so started a journa In my journal I write about daily events or interactions I've had with people. And while I write I focus not only about what happened but how I felt while it was happening. That way I learn about myself and how I feel about certain things. Also I write about my dreams and aspirations. Doing this helps me keep it all in perspective so I may achieve my goals. It's all about what you wanna do with YOUR JOURNAL.
@treehugrurthluvrsupr I should try to answer a couple of your questions. I keep a diary since I was about 12 years old and I named her Samantha. I usually write about movies I saw, books I read, funny things at school and I write ALOT about love. xD I think I write about 2-3 times a week in my diary and sometimes I put also photos in it. I had a time I writed everyday in it(not anymore). I doing it for 5 years now and I have 18 diarybooks now. Pretty much he?
@treehugrurthluvrsupr haha yeah it's quite expensive xD Almost every book I bought costs about 8 euros(+/- 8 dollars) and I also buy my own pens to write in it and tape and sissors and stuf haha :P
I have a page that I tape my fortunes from cookies on. I have my friend pages, whenever I meet a new person that I think is going to stay a part of my life, like a new friend. They get a page and I jot down little things I learn about that person, likes, dislikes, favorite this or that, has a brother named Mike, etc. But, its all stuff I learn about that person. Not a Q&A. I also glue or tape in photos, stubs, programs, cards, etc. All of that makes it fun. It's like a journal and a scrapbook.
So this time...I added fun pages to mine. Well I would buy all of these journals, diffrent shapes, sizes, colors, lines, no lines...and then I realized, I just want them uniform. So, now I keep mine in a composition book. They are all the same size, I can find them anywhere, they are cheap. So, I have a few pages reserved for quotes, when I see one I like, I write it down. I
Its wierd...I think other people who journal, just kinda want an idea of how to tackle it, how to organize it. I have been keeping a journal off and on for years now but was always so critical of my own writing that I actually threw a few away :[ So don't be critical. I hated that when I looked back at mine, they were just a bitch session of all my problems....
@shmotownlola06 yeah. i was just looking for other people's opinions but yeah i've got that. Now I'm not doing a journal so much as writing a little prose intermittently.
Im trying to start a Journal now and its awfully hard, what I would usually put in mine is how i felt during the day, what happened, feelings, thoughts. I sometimes even like to put things like pictures of me and my friends if we went some where together, and some things mayb even like movie tickets or poems. Quotes or even thing from songs :) And I tend to right alot if I start writing unless Im really tired :) Goodluck
I've decided to make a book called "My Memoirs" that will serve this same purpose. It will be a collection of various thoughts, ideas, debates, prose, poetry, maybe bits and pieces of songs, quotes, etc. I think whatever comes to mind is genuinely the best. As I've seen other people say, if you're a songwriter, keeping a journal or diary is a good way to have ideas or even some lyrics already for songs.
I'm gonna look at it when I'm older and show it to my kids! I always start out with like Monday April 7 2008 or something like that then I put dear diary
iluvphilly4 1 week ago
I started a diary when I was in 4th grade and mostly just wrote about school and stuff then in 6th, 7th , and 8th grade I wrote about boys, crushes, friends, family, favorite teachers, special events or events I want to remember like when my cousin was born or when I went to six flags and fun activities in my class! Also when I'm mad I talk about the people I'm mad at and take it out on the diary I had an 11 page entry once and sometimes they are 1 page! I am on my 3rd one now and I'm gonna loo
iluvphilly4 1 week ago
I write about everything. :) what I do from keeping myself to want to write in my journal all the time is that I make time for other things during the day to distract myself. Like hobbies and stuff if that's what you mean. I think it's good though that you have so much to talk about though that you write a lot. Maybe give yourself an hour a day to write. And by the end of that hour you stop.
Writer4ever779 1 month ago
I write obsessively. I write about anything and everything. I write mine as letters to a man who doesn't exist...I don't know how many other people do that, I know a bunch of people write "dear diary," though, so I guess it's like that. I've written like this since December 1, 2007, and each journal lasts me about 3 months. Does that answer your questions?
TheBrainSponge 3 months ago
@TheBrainSponge That doesn't answer all of them, but don't worry about it. I've received enough responses. lol. I tend to just start writing on random, different subjects. I usually don't pretend to address it to someone, but I guess that's up to personal preference. Cheers.
treehugrurthluvrsupr 2 months ago
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I write about everything that has happened not to me but in the world. I mine a journal because calling a diary is a girl thing and I think that journals are a man's thing. I do vent an awful lot and I write as much as six to eight pages a day. At this moment I have written at 3,000 pages and I do incorporate pictures of storms and news of the day. I also use a computer to write.
gunthermeyer 3 months ago
I write about everything that has happened not to me but in the world. I mine a journal because calling a diary is a girl thing and I think that journals are a man's thing. I do vent an awful lot and I write as much as six to eight pages a day. At this moment I have written at 3,000 pages and I do incorporate pictures of storms and news of the day.
gunthermeyer 3 months ago
I have kept a journal on and off for year but on a regular basis now for the last four years if you are worrying about filing a book too fast may I recommend Diary suite 4 it has free and paid versions and you just download it and your entries are stored in a password protected file that you can later export into word it allows you to categorize your entries too I love it hope that helps
lofdifferently 3 months ago
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CryingRedTears15 4 months ago
Lol. Thanks for the comments, everybody. I think I'm done with them now. tata.
treehugrurthluvrsupr 7 months ago
Hello treehugrurthluvrsupr,
This isn't going to be terribly specific but in answer to the question in your vid: All of the above. I have kept a journal for ten years and I've done EVERY type of writing you mention in your video. I find that when you do that you find you go through phases of say writing personal ventings for a few weeks or writing deep stuff for a month or whatever. And those phases themselves are like extra layers of information the journal then contains.
Peace,
Kevin
kevinbreeman 7 months ago
@kevinbreeman thank you, Kevin. Yeah, I've decided to settle on that approach, too, but not make it too extensive and draw it out. You only right about your most important thoughts or the most important parts of your day (or if it was uneventful or boring, nothing at all.). Thanks for the input. :)
treehugrurthluvrsupr 7 months ago
@treehugrurthluvrsupr Hey man. I just thought of this vid recently again after experimenting with keeping monthly/yearly summaries in my journal. It's kinda cool what you can find when you end each month in your journal with a summary of what happened that month, and then do the same for each year. Just thought I'd pass that on to you.
kevinbreeman 1 month ago
@kevinbreeman Cool! Thanks for your thoughts! :)
treehugrurthluvrsupr 1 month ago
I keep a journal, and honestly I think that you shouldn't limit yourself. A personal journal is meant to help you vent about your problems, talk about your hopes and dreams and also to write about issues of the world. When I was younger I thought that keeping a journal/diary was only to write about crushes. As I grew older, keeping a journal became an important part of my life and I started writing about everything that matters to me. Sometimes I even write poetry in my journal
LilyBee9004 8 months ago
I keep a journal, I write in what happens during the day and my thoughts and feelings, and even add in things to cherish the moments such as theater tickets.
HuckCas1 10 months ago
whright what u wont its yours i wright my dreams
justin90229 10 months ago
i started keeping a journal not to long ago i write what i did that day. Usualy i write in it every day but i skipped yesterday lol. comment me back
~peace and love~
govegan247 10 months ago
dude cool video, and i just write about what i obsreve, i find that if i write about what i did, it gets boring fast. I write what i am thinking, i let my mind flow through my pen. you should too. hope this helped a bit. later man.
bebignate 11 months ago
i have tons of journals ive kept, i love doing it its a passion. in my oppinion, you can never write too much, unless you mean thats all you do with your life ? if i have a lot to write about one day, ill sit down for a long time and write as much as i want. sometimes ill take up so many papers ill be afraid of already running out .... and i usually just write about what is bothering me, or what is making me happy. sometimes ill write as if im writing a letter to someone thats been bothering me
kelslaliberty 1 year ago
@kelslaliberty thanks for your input! :) That actually seems like a good approach as long as you have the time for it. I might try to start keeping one soon (after midterms are done with that is)
treehugrurthluvrsupr 11 months ago
@treehugrurthluvrsupr anytime ! :) hope it goes well
kelslaliberty 11 months ago
I've kept one for about 5-6 years now, at first the entries were just "Today I went for a walk" but then i'd write about my reaction to the walk so to speak and slowly as I got older it was less what i'd done that day and more how I felt about what happened that day. I would also include goals and personal views and beliefs about things. Sometimes I just enjoyed the motion of writing.
My rule of thumb was once i'd felt as though i'd let out what i was trying to say then i was done.
CountryGirlatheart9 1 year ago
I've lost touch with my inner self, thoughts, emotions, and feelings so started a journa In my journal I write about daily events or interactions I've had with people. And while I write I focus not only about what happened but how I felt while it was happening. That way I learn about myself and how I feel about certain things. Also I write about my dreams and aspirations. Doing this helps me keep it all in perspective so I may achieve my goals. It's all about what you wanna do with YOUR JOURNAL.
Starcasegurl 1 year ago
@treehugrurthluvrsupr I should try to answer a couple of your questions. I keep a diary since I was about 12 years old and I named her Samantha. I usually write about movies I saw, books I read, funny things at school and I write ALOT about love. xD I think I write about 2-3 times a week in my diary and sometimes I put also photos in it. I had a time I writed everyday in it(not anymore). I doing it for 5 years now and I have 18 diarybooks now. Pretty much he?
sailorwinxgirl 1 year ago
@sailorwinxgirl haha! wow! that's pretty extensive. good for you! :)
treehugrurthluvrsupr 1 year ago
@treehugrurthluvrsupr haha yeah it's quite expensive xD Almost every book I bought costs about 8 euros(+/- 8 dollars) and I also buy my own pens to write in it and tape and sissors and stuf haha :P
sailorwinxgirl 1 year ago
I have a page that I tape my fortunes from cookies on. I have my friend pages, whenever I meet a new person that I think is going to stay a part of my life, like a new friend. They get a page and I jot down little things I learn about that person, likes, dislikes, favorite this or that, has a brother named Mike, etc. But, its all stuff I learn about that person. Not a Q&A. I also glue or tape in photos, stubs, programs, cards, etc. All of that makes it fun. It's like a journal and a scrapbook.
ocfemmefatal 1 year ago
@ocfemmefatal haha! that's a pretty cool way to do that! very interesting! :)
treehugrurthluvrsupr 1 year ago
So this time...I added fun pages to mine. Well I would buy all of these journals, diffrent shapes, sizes, colors, lines, no lines...and then I realized, I just want them uniform. So, now I keep mine in a composition book. They are all the same size, I can find them anywhere, they are cheap. So, I have a few pages reserved for quotes, when I see one I like, I write it down. I
ocfemmefatal 1 year ago
Its wierd...I think other people who journal, just kinda want an idea of how to tackle it, how to organize it. I have been keeping a journal off and on for years now but was always so critical of my own writing that I actually threw a few away :[ So don't be critical. I hated that when I looked back at mine, they were just a bitch session of all my problems....
ocfemmefatal 1 year ago
Simple lesson: A journal is what YOU want it to be about.
shmotownlola06 1 year ago
@shmotownlola06 yeah. i was just looking for other people's opinions but yeah i've got that. Now I'm not doing a journal so much as writing a little prose intermittently.
treehugrurthluvrsupr 1 year ago
Im trying to start a Journal now and its awfully hard, what I would usually put in mine is how i felt during the day, what happened, feelings, thoughts. I sometimes even like to put things like pictures of me and my friends if we went some where together, and some things mayb even like movie tickets or poems. Quotes or even thing from songs :) And I tend to right alot if I start writing unless Im really tired :) Goodluck
TheGlittergirl4eva 1 year ago
I've decided to make a book called "My Memoirs" that will serve this same purpose. It will be a collection of various thoughts, ideas, debates, prose, poetry, maybe bits and pieces of songs, quotes, etc. I think whatever comes to mind is genuinely the best. As I've seen other people say, if you're a songwriter, keeping a journal or diary is a good way to have ideas or even some lyrics already for songs.
treehugrurthluvrsupr 1 year ago