I just started writing in a journal today and I don't know why, guess I just never saw myself as the "type" of person to. But I am a pretty quiet person with a lot of thoughts bottled in my head and I figured it be a nice idea to write my thoughts down for 15-30 minutes a

day and see how I'll change over my four years in college. I don't plan on telling anyone about it (except the people here at the forums) but I'll probably let my family read it when I'm done with college and we all can laugh about it together. I think they'd be glad do read

it, being my parents and all, and what parent doesn't want to know what their child is thinking?

Edit: Meant to put poll

Nope. Used to have a few blogs but haven't had the time anymore. Would like to start again one day.

Never really thought about it. I do one of three things with my thoughts, express them to friends and family, express them to you fine people here or bottle them up.

I just whine on the internet.

I don't tell my thoughts to anyone, not even myself.

unless my desu noto counts as a journal... :deal:

I tried. Ended up having entries like:

September 04, 2011 - Didn't do anything today.

:P

Heh yeah, my hand was getting pretty cramped because I was righting in all caps and trying to keep everything neat, which is hard for me because my natural righting is pretty sloppy, unless I write in cursive.

Blegh that's no fun. I did that for a year of tests and exams and 24/7 logs. All caps for legibility isn't worth it for a personal journal. Much more fun to write in the most haphazard slop you can, something only you could ever decipher.

Hell I keep around some pages covered in tiny writing that swirls around a central spiral. Don't know what they say anymore or why I wrote them, but they're neat to look at every once in a while. :hehe:

Edit: Not too often though. There's crazy in those pages. Can't have it rubbing back off again.

Yes I have a dream journal here that I update every once in a while on my profile.^_^

Yes, but I stopped ever since I started running out of music juice.
I needed more time to adjust to certain situations, then I'll write again.
But I barely even write anymore, I do that at school instead of actual work... Skyrim is destroying my brain. :sadvaultboy:

Nope.

No.

Used to when I was younger but as the years rolled by I realized that I was a nobody and no one would ever care to read my memoirs.

Just kidding, great way to discipline yourself into writing daily. Wish I had some journals from my grandparents. They've passed away so would be a good way to get to know what they were like. Might have to track those down one day.

Can't wait to read my old journals. I'm sure I sounded like a jacka$$, hell, probably still do.

Nope

Never something that really interested me, not that I have anything against it (unless you are one of those people that essentially uses their facebook status as a journal )

I have something similar I suppose. It's more of a daily schedule where I right down what I need to do, did do, and anything interesting I want to take note of.

I keep a visual journal of my week, or I did up until two month's ago when I got lazy. Basically just a scrapbook of sorts, with leaflets of places I've been, drawings of things I've done of collagues of stuff made from thing's i've collected throughout the day (like wrappers, cinema tickets, bus tickets etc etc) sometimes I annotate but It's mostly imagery that does the talking. My old college tutor encouraged me to do it when I was having a little trouble coming up with Ideas for my work, it's a great way to get creative juices flowing.

I've done the same thing with writing, writing down funny sentences i've heard people say which sound amusing/strange when I hear it out of context without the rest of the conversation to make sense of it, or quotes from things I've seen, sometimes significant, often not. And a lot of stuff that I like to store as "this would be a good thing for XX Character to say in XX scenario later on in my story" kind of thing, but again like the visual diary It's never anything that personal. I tried to do a personal diary once, got about a paragraph in and got bored and realised that I was writing something I'd like to think was going on in my mind, when in reality it was just a countdown clock to the next episode of lost (before it finished) and a few tumbleweeds for good measure -- and girls in bikinis.

I tried when I was a kid but my childhood was so boring. I have a blog now but I wouldn't count that as a diary.

Same. I would write about how my day went...most of the entries were the same.

I've kept update my journal often, even nowadays!

I have 16 journal books in my possession right now, but I've moved in to MsWords .DOCX

:read:

My old school used to give us them to fill in what homework/keep track of our learning, and now after 8 months on my apprenticeship I was told that I was meant to be keeping a diary of all my work/events/troubles.

I have never seen the purpose in either a diary or a journel, unless you have a real svcky memory and fail to remember tasks you were set several hours ago. Unless your writing your memoirs/autobiography since those could be at least somewhat interesting.

Nah, never bothered with it. I have a friend who's started keeping one in Polish, so she can learn the language and nobody can read what she's wrote (apart from the Polish )

Had one in middle and high school, which was written every single day for every year that I entered both. Spanning 2 thick folders. To get away from my past, I threw them both away years ago.

A friend of mine in university who did the same thing with Bulgarian, he was half Bulgarian and was partially fluent but started doing a journal in Bulgarian to improve in his final year of study since he was planning on moving to Bulgaria to be with family. A very productive way of learning, I'd definitely do it if I was to learn another language.

Had to do journal entries for an english class in HS that was about it. Don't find interest in keeping a diary since my life is pretty uneventful having nothing "exciting" happening in it. Would be the same thing from page 1 to page X "7:00 am est I got up, 10:00 am est Played games, 4:00 pm est Did stuff, 11:00 pm est went to bed" that's about it though I will say it's a peaceful life.