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]
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. giggle;
Quote from: Hippopo on July 05, 2011, 11:22:03 PM
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. giggle;
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?
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...
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.