Saturday discussion post: diaries (93/365)

[white_hart]

I haven't kept a diary regularly since I was a teenager, when I filled a series of exercise books with angsty outpourings over a period of about four years. (I stopped when I went to university, and binned the old diaries when I came home for Christmas in my first year. Which was probably a good thing, on balance.) I often wonder if I should take it up again, though, mostly because I enjoy the act of writing and it would give me a reason to use some of my nice stationery. I'm not sure what kind of diary I want, though. Probably not angsty outpourings about my innermost feelings, any more; but recording my day-to-day life seems a bit dull (although given how much I enjoy reading my "memories" on Facebook maybe I would like looking back over previous years.

Do you keep a diary, or have you done in the past? What kind of a diary is it?

Comments

[girlyswot]

I do a lot of the planning kind of diary, but not really the journalling kind. I’ve tried many times over the years, but I quickly get bored.

I wonder if some of the way you use social media takes the place of a diary? E.g. you could record nature notes from your walks, or the garden, but you already use twitter in that kind of way. Or for a making journal. I admire the people who keep notes on things they’ve made, for instance.

[white_hart]

I think you're right about social media replacing a lot of the function of a diary, though one problem is that it's dispersed and dependent on the continued availability of third-party platforms. And you can't use a fountain pen to post to it!