Wow. We're up to week 25. Next week it will be the half-way mark. So diary or journal?
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This topic was fairly easy. I don't keep a journal or diary in the traditional sense. There is no notebook with pink hearts hidden in a bottom drawer. No book of secrets secured with a lock whose key I wear on a chain around my neck.
The closest I've come was a few short stints of keeping a daily record of thoughts and activities when watching someone's children. The notes were not as much my thoughts as reminders of things to tell the parents or a means to vent when the teens were teens. Those journal pages were destroyed before sharing with anyone.
Some might call spiral notebook I keep while caregiving a journal. Times when medications were given, what vital readings were and doctors comments are jotted down for future reference.
These days, it's a digital world so a journal doesn't have to be on paper. there are journal apps for phones and computers. Reference notes, tips on craft, lists of possible character names, and photographs for setting inspiration that used to be on paper now fill several digital journals.
That said, I still carry a small notebook with me that serves as a temporary record of observations or storylines until I transfer the data to a digital journal or a folder in the file cabinet.
~till next time, Helen
Being a caregiver in the past, I get it, and I think it's important to keep a caregiver journal for the medical aspect, but also for an escape to clear the head now and then. I'm glad to know others have a character name journal of sorts, too, and I add potential or future book titles that pop into my head. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI've read articles about journaling as therapy, but writing fantasy is my escape. I get to fly with dragons and hang out with wizards. Thanks for stopping by.
DeleteMy mom began keeping a journal when she took my kids on vacations without us; I decided to keep up that habit whenever we went anywhere as a family, so my kids could look back and remember, and not just the photos taken.
ReplyDeleteI think journalling vacations is a great idea.
DeleteI never thought to differentiate the two (diary vs journal). Great post!
ReplyDeleteSince I've never done the diary bit and couldn't think of what to write I fell back onto the correspondent rule of the W's. The what it is gave me the idea and the post just came. Thanks for stopping by.
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