Query: Journalling

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

And query for my flist:

Do you journal? If so, what about?

The issue is I have two daily agenda/schedule/calendar books for 2021. One, serviceable one I bought at Staples, which I plan to use as my 'Mom' one with to-do lists, reminders, dentist appointments, etcetera.

The other one is a nice Edward Gorey agenda book that my sister gave me for Christmas and I want to do something with it. It has a lot of nice artwork itself, some of which I've never seen before.

Ideas:

A diary (I've never been very good at keeping a diary but the daily section is small).

A creative journal (for my own poems. Or for things that inspire me or things I like.)

A crafting journal (I have my miniature coffee shop).

I have heard of gratitude journals. I don't know much about them other than the obvious.

Do you have/keep New Year's resolutions?

I suppose I could use it to keep track of resolutions but that seems a bit, well, sad, because I'd like it to be fun and resolutions are always a bit awful.

Anyway, if you do something with a journal or have any ideas about any of this, drop me a comment.

Comments

[ancientreader]

To the extent that I have a journal, it's probably my posts here. The other things one might maybe count: a cheap notebook in which I tape copies of poems I like (it is labeled "Poetry Scrapbook," because I'm imaginative like that); and, as a species of writing journal, notes on the draft document of whatever fic I'm working on. The notes can be anything from fragmentary scenes to links to articles that inform the characterizations dear God do I sound pompous but yeah.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I don't think you sound pompous at all. I want to know! So on the last bit, the notes on the document/fic are electronic? Meaning copied and pasted into the file itself? Or are they hard copies of things? It might be nice to make more of an effort with poems and print/copy them and paste or hand copy them if they're short or fragments in the journal.

[ancientreader]

The writing notes are part of the document file; if they're something I wind up incorporating directly, or just a few words about something I want to do and then I do it, once the note is "used up" in that way I delete it.

I do print out scholarly stuff that I want to study closely -- like, one thing I'm using for the Giant Stucky of Doom is to do with the feeling of guilt as experienced by former coerced child soldiers. I keep a folder with PDFs of this kind.

The writing notes always include a ton of stuff [stray paragraphs, dialogue I've thought better of, scenes that don't quite work] that I wind up discarding, and that goes into a folder called Scrap. My Scrap folders are my lifesavers: I find it 1000% easier to edit myself if I know that I can go look at the stuff I'm throwing away, JUST IN CASE.

I love the idea of printing out your poems and putting them in a scrapbook! Your poetry is so beautiful and accomplished and if for example you could look at your achievements in physical form it might be a good feeling????