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Do any of you journal? What do you put in it? I know in class, especially with the travel narrative, people write journals and keep notes. How do you all do it? Highlights of the day? Personal thoughts?
The reason I ask is that I want to do it. BUT I just don't know where to start (as ridiculous as it sounds). In the past, I kept journals through class requirements (what you ate in a day).
You opinions and suggestions would be AWESOME
<3PV
I'm guilty.
ReplyDeleteI have been keeping a journal since I was able to write. Literally, I would write every little thing I did. "I woke up at 7:09 am, I ate cherrios at 7:45am..." I would write conversations by my parents and people around me. I was little and didn't really have much to say about my life. As the years went by, I continued writing and I started to limit the exact time of things and started to just write the things I did each day. I wrote everyday about everything I did. The years continued, and then I started to write every couple of days, things that I learned from the day, from people, from life.
I have boxes of journals that for some reason I do not go back and look at, but maybe one day.
My advice would be just start with writing about your day and what you did, and I think as the years go on you can find your own writing style and just write.
I feel that I write in journals because it is something that I would have liked my grandparents or parents to have done so I could know what their life was like. Sure it is great to hear the stories orally, but imagine if I could have had it in writing. I write so my future family will know how life was like for me.
Just start and don't worry about what to write so much, I think it'll all fall into place.
Thanks for the tips! Maybe you can memoir-ize your journals one day. Something cool to pass down the family line as an heirloom or something like that. Thanks again!
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I found myself keeping a journal with tips, ideas, strategies, or just unorthodox thinking about my career which is being a high school English teacher. I have kept every notebook, paper, and book that I ever came in contact with during my high school years. All the other subjects, I didn't care about. I threw everything else away except my English stuff. I find myself (which I have to give myself credit for if I do say so myself haha) referring to those notebooks because I use them as reference for my methods classes and current thinking. It's crazy.
ReplyDeleteI wish I can keep a journal about my thoughts like Nati does in a that kind of format. I usually write songs so in a way that's my way of journaling. I also write lyrics even if they don't get used in a song.
But like Nati said, just write what comes out, it'll fall into place. :) writing is so static and so individualized so the only way to embrace it is to embrace yourself!