Comments on: A Book Diary for WAVERLEY

By: Belle

Belle — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:22:01 +0000

That is so funny! (Well, I mean right now, from an adult perspective. It probably isn’t funny from either a kid’s perspective or a parent’s perspective!) I can see why it put you off journals.

All of my journals, specialized and the personal attempts, have been handwritten. I’m not sure why doing this book journal on the computer really fired me up – maybe because it feels more like a work journal than something more personal. I like the idea of being able to search through the entries, too.

So far, though, I’ve been releasing a lot of doubts about my story line into my entries!

By: Belle

Belle — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:19:20 +0000

Your spiritual journal sounds like mine, Margot. And I’ve not written in mine much since I started blogging here, too. But it’s helped me a few times even though I don’t go back to it as often – I’ve reread entries and come away from the reading feeling much better.

By: Belle

Belle — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:18:21 +0000

Your journals sound like the few entries I did manage to pen when I was a teenager, Joanne. So filled with angst but without any context! If you start a book diary for your current book, let me know how it goes, especially if you end up finding interesting uses for it. I’m really hoping this will help to both inspire me to keep writing, and give me a place to jot down my thoughts about revisions.

By: Belle

Belle — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:16:21 +0000

I have a personal blog, too, where I vowed to blog about daily things. But that didn’t work for me either. Good luck this weekend with your word count!

By: Belle

Belle — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:14:19 +0000

That’s a good point, Nicole. In a way, the blogging is almost like a journal. I might tell myself that to ease the writer-guilt of not being a good personal journal keeper!

By: Belle

Belle — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:13:14 +0000

I LOVE fountain pens (and candles, too)! There’s nothing like the feel of a really good fountain pen scribbling across quality paper.

Using the software for this book diary feels a lot like blogging, actually. Just really, really private for-my-eyes-only blogging!

By: Belle

Belle — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:11:31 +0000

Now I’m finding I’m pouring all my doubt about my plot into it, Janel! But at least it’s not depressing and angst filled.

By: Belle

Belle — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:10:44 +0000

Zines! I used to get quite a few zines, but mostly art zines, Memory. Do you still have that writing-related one still? It must be so nice to have something like that with all your journal entries in it.

By: Mikeachim

Mikeachim — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:32:53 +0000

I had a personal journal as a barely-teen, and I put something self-incriminating in it, about a girl I liked. So I decided I had to dispose of it. Went into the garden. Set it alight. All was fine. Put the embers in the outside rubbish bin. Suddenly, not fine – it caught fire, sheet of flame up the side of the house, and melted the plastic guttering off the outside wall which fell and lay against the garden like five meters of hot, sticky licqourice.

I got into *so much trouble*.

Kinda put me off journals for a long, long time. But recently I’ve come back to the idea. As you’re doing with WAVERLEY, it’s a great way to keep track of your own progress on writing projects. And I could do with some of that.

But it would have to be hand-written. Typing it would feel…wrong, somehow. And curiously, I don’t know why. But it would.
.-= Mikeachim´s last blog ..Waiting To Be Replaced =-.

By: Margot

Margot — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:37:56 +0000

I'm an on and off journal keeper. The longest I've sustained one was a three year spiritual journal. I really love it when I do it. This last year, since I started blogging, I haven't written a word. .-= Margot´s last blog ..Movie Review: Love Takes Wing =-.