Journals - do you keep one?
I sorta do and I sorta don't.
I keep a sketchbook with me and carry it around in the car, for random notes, mind maps, drawings and doodles for stuff I don't want to forget. I have this fear that the greatest insight I'll ever have will come to me in a flash, then someone will disturb me, and I'll forget it.
How about you? Do you keep a journal? How often do you write in it?
Saundra Kane Traveller in the arts
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(1/12/02 8:12 am) Reply
Re: Journals - do you keep one?
I kept one religiously for about 2 years about 10 years ago. I always mean to go back to keeping a journal but haven't. I love to read the stuff now that I wrote then.
alithena Traveller in the arts
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(3/11/02 8:00 am) Reply
Journals
I'm a dedicated journaler, having said that I don't feel compelled to write in it every day. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I've started to make my journals more visually interesting (for me anyway) by including photos, clippings, my own sketches and the like - this is probably easier because I'm now using an A3 size journal.
I also have what I call my workbook for my poetry - ideally my ideas and workings go in there, although quite often things get very blurred and I have things that look more like journal entries in there. I recently turned one of those into a poem, so it can be quite useful.
About the best journaling book I have come across is "Journal to the self : 22 paths to personal growth" by Kathleen Adams.
Also useful is "Harvesting your journals : writing tools to enhance your growth and creativity" by Rosalie Deer Heart and Alison Strickland.
Cheers
Ali
Soho Traveller in the arts
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(4/21/02 3:41 am) Reply
Re: Journals
I've kept journals off and on since high school (many eons ago). I remember the day I took a bunch of those notebooks and burned 'em all. Literally. I struck a match...I was a very melodramatic, theatrical kid! It was "Goodbye, Old Self, Hello New Self". Of course I didn't change a bit! :-)
I was clearing out some stuff the other day and found a journal of mine. The last used page had a note that said "make some kind of entry every day" and it was dated Feb 18 1995. After that it was nothing but blank pages. Oops.
alithena Traveller in the arts
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(4/21/02 9:57 am) Reply
Re: Journals
Errrr.... Sand ... that should have read an A4 size...
but while we are on the subject of handbags...oophs that probably wasn't a serious question ;-) .... I've got a major handbag fetish, so couldn't resist that. :-)
Re: Journals
A woman's handbag (and the secret contents therein) is one of the great mysteries of human civilization, as far as men are concerned. And they must be damned convenient too. That's why some of us macho guys carry those fancy 'diary/organizers', so we can secretly get in on the whole 'handbag thing' without compromising our blokeness.
alithena Traveller in the arts
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(4/21/02 10:24 am) Reply
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Re handbags, personally I think blokes have it way too easy. I mean how can you possibly survive going anywhere with nothing but the contents of one's pockets or perhaps the dinky blokeish diary organiser thing you speak of Sand? At least you are spared the potential crisis of swapping handbags mid week only to discover some terrible important thing has been left at home with the previous favourite.
Hmmm I can feel the need for a whole message board devoted to handbags. ;-)
Re: Journals
I keep two. One of them is for keeping track of day to day events, and the other is for my art (I plan my projects, sketches, notes, colour formulaes, et al). I have an army surplus bag that also follows me everywhere. In it I keep whatever I think I might be using in the field, or whatever. I know alot of males have some sort of stigma attached to carrying a bag or backpack, but really it has never occured to me not to take mine wherever I go.
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