Hey guys I have something I want to talk about

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

It is this. Journals n shit.

I picked up a book in the old Barnes and Noble about art journals, or well, the journal as art.

I don't care if your journal is art. If you do post pics.

I am intrigued by the idea of keeping a journal. I would keep a pocket journal and sketch/write down phrases that I find interesting.

[spoiler]One phrase I found interesting. This guy came through my checkout line at best buy(love that job so fucking much btw.) and we made small talk. I mentioned that I eventually want to get rid of my car and use a bicycle for transportation. he said the most american thing ever as his response[/spoiler]

[spoiler]How can you shop if you can't drive?[/spoiler]

[Hippopo]

If you do start journaling, you have to figure out a way to make spoiler tags... because that just made your entry ten times better. 

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

If you do start journaling, you have to figure out a way to make spoiler tags... because that just made your entry ten times better. 

I'm sure I could figure something out.

Journaling is becoming a more attractive prospect, perhaps this will help me communicate my ideas. I have a hard time doing that and I eventually give up on ideas (ideads, as I call them in private.) But if I could somehow organize my thoughts, my ideas would become more clear and my mind would be less clutter?

does that make sense?

[Boogus Epirus Aurelius]

It kind of started out that way for me. It was going to be this therapeutic mind dump that left me with all of these great ideas I could look back on and write books and song lyrics and eulogies about...

Then it descended into this daily shopping list of bullshit that only happened because I was forcing myself to do it every night.

I'll keep a pocket journal on me most of the time, but only put something down if I want to put something down. I dont think "hee hee, this would be so great for my journal", but rather, "hey, this is cool, I don't want to forget this".

Plus, those four thirty in the morning REM-sleep-post-dream muddled thoughts are the ones that need to be on paper. So I do that too.

I also make smoothies in my spare time...

[Samus Aran]

I used to keep somewhat of a writer's journal. I would write pretty much anything that came to mind that I figured I could make use of in writing. I would write almost a poem a day in it, and it had lots of first drafts of various little stories and even some drawings when I was bored enough. Or just words I liked, or character names that sounded nice, or...anything, really.

But it's been a while since I last used it.