All this Writing

[WickedEve]

Like many of you, I spend a lot of time writing. Poetry, stories, blog entries, etc. I realize that over the years, I have been keeping a journal. I look back at all I've written and suddenly I'm there again, in those moments when friends have died, my ex's funeral, old relationships, new relationships, my children's younger years, my pains and joys. It's very much like a photo album, but the scenes and faces seem more vivid in words.

Have you found yourself keeping a journal of sorts?

 

[champagne1982]

I found that announcement about Angeline's arrival on Lit when I was thinking about what you'd said. I spend a lot of typing time on this forum and it occurs to me that since I write something, at least once daily when I'm available, Literotica is my journal since 2002. I just need to travel back into the archives to find myself.

 

[WickedEve]

I have poems that I wrote while I was unhappily married. And poems about our split up. His death. When I look back and can see 5 or 7 years worth of poetry all in one group, it's like... time lapse photography. Suddenly all those events go from a seed to a flower in just minutes.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I feel pretty much the same as Carrie. I was never that big on journals or diaries - not that I disliked the concept, but I simply lack the self discipline to keep one, or, more importantly, never saw the point on keeping a log of my thoughts and activities even if I didn't feel like talking about anything. But for better or worse, pretty much all I've thought and said and done since 2002 is hidden somewhere in these cyberpages. It feels like home, even when I'm not saying anything.

 

[Angeline]

Yeah I think I agree that this is my home, my journal. I've never kept a handwritten journal--well since the diaries I had when I was a kid. But even with them I never wrote much because I'm left-handed and hate writing things out. My hand drags across the page and smears everythings. Keyboarding liberated me. And though I write other places now, I find I still get my best ideas here. There's something about this place....

 

[Lauren Hynde]

It's the porn.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Only good girls write journals ... the bad ones never have the time

 

[unpredictablebijou]

Only good girls write journals ... the bad ones never have the time

Beg ta differ, sugarbutt. No one would define me as a good girl without laughing, but...

I've been keeping a journal since I was about eleven, pretty steadily. It's where I do a lot of my raw writing, but it also functions as a diary of sorts, and a scratch pad. They're interesting historical documents, with planning lists, rants and mundane things as well as poetry and prose and free-association and exercises and all that. At one point long ago, several years' worth of these spiral notebooks were in a file cabinet that someone stole off a front porch (long story) and I felt like I was missing an arm. It was really traumatic.

These days I go through a 100 page spiral notebook (oddly, they have to be college ruled or I freak out and can't write) about every six to eight weeks. Most of it's crap, but sometimes I find a pony.

bj

 

[PandoraGlitters]

I have one of the very small ones, the sort they make for lists and phone numbers, but all I jot down is ideas of things that strike me. Not the actual writing. That I inflict on you fine people.