Do you keep a diary?

[Taxloss]

I keep a daily written diary of my activities and random musings, and have done for years (with some hiatuses). I find it a very pleasant and rewarding exercise, and I was wondering how widespread diary-keeping is.

[Left Is Write]

1. I kept written diaries - not daily, but frequent - from 7th grade

through about age 22 or 23.

Now? No. Occasionally I write in a leatherbound journal, and I blog too. The blog, of cousre, never gets TOO deeply personal.

[MrCoffee]

2. No, because i'm not a girl in junior high.

i'm kidding. don't get all hot and bothered. it's a joke. i am a girl in junior high.

[Taxloss]

7. It's an under-rated activity, IMHO.

Although diaries written during adolescence tend to be horrifyingly cringe-making when looked back upon, in later years having a record becomes a pleasure. The writing is certainly far less hormonal and overwraught. But at least hormonal and overwraught is honest.

[Broken_Hero]

3. yeah, off and on

maybe a few entries a month..in the past I kept it going for months at a time...

[LSK]

4. I started keeping a calories diary this month

[tjwmason]

5. No.

I've tried at various points in my life - but they invariably last for fewer than 4 days. :eyes:

[Taxloss]

8. I found two things helped that problem.

1. Don't fret if you miss a day or two - don't feel all the missed details have to be included, otherwise it becomes a chore.

2. Don't be frightened of writing "nothing worth recording happened today" or a similarly ultra-short entry.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. No. I'm not that interesting, even to me.