CW Journal 2/22
Feb. 22nd, 2006 09:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starrylitesMost of you know that I have twenty gazillion journals (whether you're friended to them all or not), but they do actually all have a purpose. In case you hadn't noticed, most of my randomness goes here. So, a new trend in the randomness...my creative writing journal! Because...I have a hard time doing it on paper.
Comments will always be welcome, but never mandatory (it is just a class project after all), just be aware the topics will always be completely random.
Over the last couple of days, I've realized that I tend to write in a journal of some form about twenty times more often than my roommates. Now, I knew that I was a pretty good journal writer, but man, they look at me like I'm amazing. I was talking to Julie about it last night and she told me that the fact that I can write down that much about myself is remarkably amazing. I had my last paper journal in my hand I was looking at it, and realized that shew as write. It's probably got about 300 pages in it, and within just barely over a year I almost filled it, and I really didn't think of myself as that avid of a writer. I look back on that now and realize that my entire senior year is written in those pages, and it will forever be there. Just searching through those pages last night I remembered tons of things I'd forgotten. I mean, holy crap, I have my seating arrangement for my AP Econ class in there! It's seemed a little stupid at the time, but just having that seating arrangement down somewhere means that just thinking about it, I'll have more memories from my favorite high school class than I would have otherwise.
And I've never had a problem writing to inanimate objects. Looking at it, I write to my journal like I'm writing to a person, namely an older person of myself, or at least I used to. I should really get back into that again, I think. I really did talk to my journal. "Journal, I'm sorry I've been neglected you so much lately, but school's been busy, you know?" It was kinda fun to write like that, but since I do all my journaling online anymore, is everyone going to think I'm crazy if I do that? I don't know...it does seem a little odd and random, though.
But in any case, I realized how much of a firm believer I am in journal writing. It's hilarious to see what's important to you at one point in your life and how it changes. There's a definite pattern in my writing. My journal when I was 8 had entries that were maybe 4 sentences long and I was just excited that I actually wrote something! And then As I got to be ten or so, it was all about how cool I was. Then, when I was 12 and became a serious journal writer, it became about everyone around me and how things changed, and not necessarily how they affected me. Now it's more about what I'm doing again with the occasional mention of those around me. It's not that I consciously changed how I journaled, but I still did, and it's interesting to me that it happened that way.
Comments will always be welcome, but never mandatory (it is just a class project after all), just be aware the topics will always be completely random.
Over the last couple of days, I've realized that I tend to write in a journal of some form about twenty times more often than my roommates. Now, I knew that I was a pretty good journal writer, but man, they look at me like I'm amazing. I was talking to Julie about it last night and she told me that the fact that I can write down that much about myself is remarkably amazing. I had my last paper journal in my hand I was looking at it, and realized that shew as write. It's probably got about 300 pages in it, and within just barely over a year I almost filled it, and I really didn't think of myself as that avid of a writer. I look back on that now and realize that my entire senior year is written in those pages, and it will forever be there. Just searching through those pages last night I remembered tons of things I'd forgotten. I mean, holy crap, I have my seating arrangement for my AP Econ class in there! It's seemed a little stupid at the time, but just having that seating arrangement down somewhere means that just thinking about it, I'll have more memories from my favorite high school class than I would have otherwise.
And I've never had a problem writing to inanimate objects. Looking at it, I write to my journal like I'm writing to a person, namely an older person of myself, or at least I used to. I should really get back into that again, I think. I really did talk to my journal. "Journal, I'm sorry I've been neglected you so much lately, but school's been busy, you know?" It was kinda fun to write like that, but since I do all my journaling online anymore, is everyone going to think I'm crazy if I do that? I don't know...it does seem a little odd and random, though.
But in any case, I realized how much of a firm believer I am in journal writing. It's hilarious to see what's important to you at one point in your life and how it changes. There's a definite pattern in my writing. My journal when I was 8 had entries that were maybe 4 sentences long and I was just excited that I actually wrote something! And then As I got to be ten or so, it was all about how cool I was. Then, when I was 12 and became a serious journal writer, it became about everyone around me and how things changed, and not necessarily how they affected me. Now it's more about what I'm doing again with the occasional mention of those around me. It's not that I consciously changed how I journaled, but I still did, and it's interesting to me that it happened that way.
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