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Just picked mine up again a few days ago. I write about my day and if something noteworthy happens I use it to practice my prose. It allows me to make mistakes/sound stupid without caring and I think it helps me to improve my writing.

>>9417839
I write about my diary desu

Then when my conscience asks me "did you write today?" I can say "yeah, sort of"

>>9417839
Here's a translated excerpt from my diary
2015, december

"I feel like i am loved, but im not so sure anymore. It all started on the 28th of octobor, when I asked a girl out of anxiety how much she loved me. She didn't respond." The rest of the page, i cannot remember too good.

>>9418361
this is bait

>>9418387
Ok. You got me. She did respond. She said:
>I dont feel that we know eachother well enough. Ask me again in a few months.

>>9417839
Main subjects:-

>general developments in life
>thoughts, ponderings and epiphanies
>progress in personal development
>progress with hobbies and interests
>days out
>nights out
>sexual encounters
>dream reports and interpretations
>drug trips
>health concerns

Basically, anything that seems significant in my life. I keep a journal to save my life from amnesia and obscurity. When I'm on my deathbead, I plan to re-read my journals, and reassure myself that I've had a fulfilling existence.

Also, keeping a journal is a good way to practice writing. If you hope to write anything serious one day, you need to keep your hand in somehow.

I used to keep a journal, didn't write in it regularly though, it was mostly a place to put down ideas.
I did write more extensively later on when I was feeling overpoweringly anxious. Putting everything I wanted (or didn't want) to say (to friends which I don't have) on paper seemed to help. Recently I burned it all, without even re-reading it. That didn't seem to do anything, but at least now nobody will know what was written there.

>>9419510
That's another benefit of journals. Writing about your life helps you get your head straight, and express what's troubling you. It's a therapeutic act.

And afterwards, why not burn what you wrote? The process has served its purpose after all. I get where you're coming from, anon.

I keep a journal. I vent and write thoughts, feelings, developments, ideas, but mostly about my anxieties, frustrations, possible solutions to problems in my life to be implemented, that sort of thing.

Originally, I kept a sketchbook that I also wrote journal entries in occasionally, or a book that functioned as both to varying ratios. For the past few months, it was hard for me to lug a physical book around and write any thing that I felt needed to be put down, so I just opened a google doc and titled it 'Journal' so I can type in it at my laptop/smartphone/any computer with wifi access and also kept an anonymous Tumblr for venting as well. I feel more comfortable now with an actual physical book, so I've switched back to a notebook that I only had a couple entries in and a short story.

>>9419578
Do you ever read it back?

>>9419645

Yeah. I used to trash my older journals because I hated reading them back. All angst and shitty sarcasm and no actual constructive brainstorming. I kinda forgave myself for not being perfect so I stopped doing that. I noticed also that my older journals were more pretensive and actually "spoke" to the book as if it were a person, the newer ones are more simpler logs. The bigger issues (ie the ones I have less control over) are still major driving forces it seems, but alot of the smaller stuff actually has been resolved, which I'm happy about now that I think about it.

>>9419465
That seems nice. I might pick it up too.

>>9417839
I'd like to but I'm afraid someone would read it to blackmail me or something

>>9419465
I write about all of these things except the sexual encounters because I don't have any.

>>9417839
I used to keep a dream journal, I am trying to get back into it now

>be NEET and have nothing interesting to put in your journal
>be successful and living life to its fullest but never have time to journal about it
pick one

I just do free writes when I go camping. Such lack of structure gives me ideas.

I have a "feels journal" that I write in whenever I can't let go of some frustration or uncomfortable feeling, and I spoadically try to keep a dream journal going. Never had a care to keep a daily journal, though.

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>>9417853
every fucking thread

>>9420895
I noted this bullying in my diary desu

I bought a 400page journal two years ago. I write in it when i feel like it, for instance i'll go days, weeks and occasionally a month without writing an entry. I never date them as well. Yestersay i was staring at blank page thinking what to write, then i decided to read all my entries. Jesus i was a pussy when i first started, then gradually the enteries became more self-assured. I improved on myself the last two years and thats what i wrote about.

I had a journal once, but I burned it for all of its edginess. Being post pubescent now, I've started keeping one with more well-thought entries. I keep it on my phone so that I can write without looking like a pretentious art student in public. I do it whenever I have time. Sometimes before bed, sometimes when I'm waiting and have nothing to do. I usual just write about my feelings about whatever happens in life, notable conversations with others or any interesting coincidence. I like to imagine that I'll print it and long after my death someone will find it and it will hold some significance, that I'll have something of a lasting legacy.
>>9420253
Yes, because no one can spare 30 minutes every few days to write about their thoughts whilst also holding a job. Try harder, edgy faggot.
Polite sage because I didn't add much of anything new and I responded to faggotry.

>>9417839
I used to keep all kinds of things in my journal. I used it as an agenda, and to ramble on inanely. Now I keep the agenda/todo part in a separate booklet and my journal in another.

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I do. I used to write in a physical journal but the anxiety of it being read and my debaucheries discovered by people I care about was too much.

Now I use an app secured behind seven proxies.

>>9423992
you just posted it right now dummy

just wait until I decipher this runic language of yours