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a-very-fond-farewell:
demonicae:
catknip:
have you ever tried to write a diary it’s freakin hard and all the movies lied ok
Master’s degree in writing here.
This is why you might be having issues:
1) You’re self censoring. You spend more time worrying about what a hypothetical reader will think of you. Makes you stop being honest.
2) You don’t do it often enough. Carry that thing with you, write in it EVERY DAY. Write down odd thoughts, nightmares, shopping lists, weird tangents. That’s what it’s there for.
3) You’re trying to be profound and meaningful. This is raw, unedited shit… stop pretending that everything that comes out of your pen is going to be pure gold because it ain’t.
4) you’re worried about someone reading it in your lifetime. Create a cipher only you can read. Its easy as all hell to do, and you don’t have to panic about leaving your darkest secrets on a bus.
5) you’re trying to emulate fictional diaries… like, seriously… real life isn’t gonna hold up to something that’s been edited to within an inch of it’s life.
Also, another thing you might want to consider if you can’t keep one. Maybe you have adhd and you feel guilty about not being able to write an entry every day.
That’s okay, consistency is hard for us, practice might get you far… but our “far” might be two weeks of journaling before taking a mysterious break of a month. If that happens, don’t feel guilty. I believe in you and what you can achieve right now.
By all means, if you can handle it try what this super thoughtful person is suggesting up here (I will try my best myself!). But if you can’t, that’s also okay.
a-very-fond-farewell:
demonicae:
catknip:
have you ever tried to write a diary it’s freakin hard and all the movies lied ok
Master’s degree in writing here.
This is why you might be having issues:
1) You’re self censoring. You spend more time worrying about what a hypothetical reader will think of you. Makes you stop being honest.
2) You don’t do it often enough. Carry that thing with you, write in it EVERY DAY. Write down odd thoughts, nightmares, shopping lists, weird tangents. That’s what it’s there for.
3) You’re trying to be profound and meaningful. This is raw, unedited shit… stop pretending that everything that comes out of your pen is going to be pure gold because it ain’t.
4) you’re worried about someone reading it in your lifetime. Create a cipher only you can read. Its easy as all hell to do, and you don’t have to panic about leaving your darkest secrets on a bus.
5) you’re trying to emulate fictional diaries… like, seriously… real life isn’t gonna hold up to something that’s been edited to within an inch of it’s life.
Also, another thing you might want to consider if you can’t keep one. Maybe you have adhd and you feel guilty about not being able to write an entry every day.
That’s okay, consistency is hard for us, practice might get you far… but our “far” might be two weeks of journaling before taking a mysterious break of a month. If that happens, don’t feel guilty. I believe in you and what you can achieve right now.
By all means, if you can handle it try what this super thoughtful person is suggesting up here (I will try my best myself!). But if you can’t, that’s also okay.