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

[white_hart]

I think that's probably true for me too, but I can't use a fountain pen to write here :-(

[mountainkiss]

I have just got my fountain pen set up after, um, about three or four years, and I am very happy. Now need to get note paper or cards.

[white_hart]

I have something close to a dozen fountain pens now, so I do feel that I ought to find things to write with them!

[mountainkiss]

Yes and it’s fun to do but also odd. I have to work myself up a bit. I’m glad to have one that really suits my hand, though, and doesn’t leave ink everywhere, so that might galvanise me.