I have kept a journal since I was a teenager. I have a shelf full of them. If I look back on the early ones, they were pretty consistently written – sometimes daily short entries. But as the years and decades have passed, the entries have become further apart. In fact, in the latest volume, the entries each cover a month.
These monthly entries have become my way of catching up on my life.
I make notes frequently to remind me what to write about in the monthly entry but I don’t write day by day or even week to week as I once wrote.
It’s not that I have become so lazy. I write a lot for my work. I am constantly writing poetry. I still write letters on paper to mail as well as emails. But I can’t seem to get back in the habit of regular journal writing.
I’m asking the online universe (not yet a metaverse and really my limited readership):
- Do you keep a journal?
- Do you write daily, weekly, monthly?
- How do you structure your writing so that you keep up rather than have to catch up on your life?
I’d appreciate any responses. If you’re not into commenting, can you at least answer the anonymous poll questions below?
Milneville 