why one journals

[rowanf]

I started this in my friend wldrose journal entry about why journaling. I thought it probably belonged here instead.

Why do any of us write journals? I think varies day to day. Mostly I write because that way I can remember what I do and to conteract the fact that my brain is like like steel sieve. I write in Lj instead of blogger where I started out because I value the community aspects of the place. Sometimes I worry that my Lj is less literary than my handwritten journal was. (I started journalling as part of The Artist's Way where part of the *point* is literary.)

It is interesting being in England and keeping a hand written journal (even though I brought my laptop). There is so much more ephemera on a trip -- I have pasted in postcards, attraction brochures, etc., along with handwritten notes and places to later paste in my Lj posts when I'm back home with a printer. I think I need to do more ephemera at home (it is mostly movie tickets) but OTOH I mostly go to the same restaurants and things so there wouldn't be all that much *new* paste in. Hmm. I do notice that I do less and less hand-journaling as time goes on. When I first started my Lj postings were pasted into a handwritten journal. Now occasional handwritten entries punctuate pages of Lj posts. Maybe it is time to read The Artist's Way again. :-)

Comments

You're trying to seduce me, aren't you?

[(Anonymous)]

to LJ, that is. Well, there are emails I save to chronicle things, and I supposed I could drop those in. I could do one on the fun&games of being a mother of a special needs kid--from the viewpoint of having had some of the same problems, but not being dx'd or being allowed to have that consideration. All right, so I had lesser symptoms of rages than he does. But Loren W. e-introduced me to one of her coworkers who's son of Arthur's age is having rages, and she's a single mom, as well. I could store some of the answers in an LJ and direct people there, or use it as fodder for someone else's research later on. I tend to have my notes scattered, and...

and then Faire Lady might have a place to write her naughty notes. I'm getting about a page a day written out, depending on day and font size!

Marina