I've just read through my old journals for the new year. Helps you to see how your desires have (or haven't) come to fruition, how you've changed and the growth you've made! For me I've mostly realized how boring my journals are. How is your journaling Anon? Do you put photos in like a scrapbook? Do you draw? What brand and pen do you use? Post photos if you will
I'll go first >How is my journaling?Could be much better, found it very depressing and boring but I can see how much I've grown. Also very messy writing, need to fix that >DrawYes (picrel)>PicturesNo but I'm going to start/about to buy a printer>Book brandI use a Leuchtturm1917 A5 Ruled Black at the moment, I like the earthy colors too>Pen brandI've been using a Parker Sonnet fountain in black but have just got a Lamy 317 Roller-ball in black (didn't realize it was plastic, feels pretty cheap)Your turn anon
>>24091685>How is your journaling Anon?A 50/50 mix of schizo rambling and quotes from books. It's not meant to be read, maybe edited and compiled later if there's anything worthwhile.>Photos/drawingsNo, I might start though.>JournalCheap ones from Amazon>PenBall-point right now but I have a Pilot Metropolitan in the mail
>>24091711>Parker Sonnetbased,i use a parker vector which was the cheapest i could find at the office store and im liking the fountain pen feel.
>>24091685>how’s my journaling sparse, repetitive, quality of writing is in active decline. I’m starting to write reflections on what I’m reading in the hopes to actually remember what I read. I’m trying to write fiction but even basic exercises stress me out bc I keep think abt how shitty it>Draw No>picturesScreencaps sometimes if I saw something funny or thought provoking >BrandAmazon cheapie / N.A.- I have a long running word document started in 2022. Too slow to write by hand, don’t like the way my handwriting looks when I go fast >Pen Blue Pilot G2
I have found that if I just journal my life is so much more organized and I am so much less retarded and anxious. But yet I always just forget about it at some point.
>>24093783> I’m trying to write fictionNice, keep at it! I always used to cringe at my writing too and would then rip out and burn the pages, I think I was scared that others may read it but at some point I stopped caring and its pretty freeing>>24093741>>24093791>>24092716A good pen and journal is so worth it, makes the writing experience actually fun
>>24091685I used to journal about my life, I trated my journal like a diary back then. Didnt solve any of my problem, so I decided to use my journal for something else. These days my journal is about my current art project, some planning, all mixed together with workout progression lmao
like samuel pepys, except I keep a markdown file on a cloud server that I sync to my various devices
I only journal when I am feeling overwhelmed from my reading and motivations.>photos>drawings>brand and penall worthless, I use docs.google.com since I can work on these documents both on my laptop and my phone
>>24094226Uncool anon
I'm really autistic about journalling, I have two categories of notebooks for journaling. The first one is where I write everyday about what happens in my life and what are my thoughts on it. The second is where I write my random thoughts and essays and also where I out my insights and summaries of books.
>>24094425i also have 2,one for life stuff and another for thoughts about what i read.
I kept all my journals throughout the years, thinking that one day my children or grandchildren would find them and read through them and know what I was like as a young person. About seven filled journals are sitting in the dust in the back of a closet, covered in moldy old clothes I'm never going to wear again, waiting for me to get around to throwing them all away. Now that I have a child, I really don't want to be known by my past journals... All those phases of misery, all the cringe phases, the time I was into drawing edgy doodles in my own blood, the account of a horrible one-sided failed obsession... Those are not the things I want my children remembering me by. I do plan to keep my current journal, which by luck was begun right as I was falling in love with my husband and which I've taped many sentimental keepsakes into. Nowadays I don't have time to journal stream of consciousness most evenings like I used to, and just use it to write down thoughts that recur and bother me, as a way to "tie them down" and either stop ruminating on them, or as a means to move from thought to action and change.
>>24091685my journal and my pen,the journal is a notebook i picked up at the dollar store and the pen is a parker vector.
>>24095888you sound like a keeper ngl.
I bet all of you with fancy pens have shit handwriting, meanwhile, I am here writing a beautiful semi-spencerian hand with my trusty papermate flexgrips.
>>24096896my handwriting is ok,nothing fancy but easily readable and maybe i will try to learn gregg shorthand in the near future.and i also own and use ballpoint pen too it doesnt have to be one or the other only.
>>24095888I used to think the same way until I decided to not marry and reproduce. Now I was thinking that whether I should gibs my journal collectionto my niece n nephew or simply burn the entire thing down to wipemy trace of existence in this world. Nice trips dough
