About Journaling

"Bluesky Threads"

Trying to find the month and year I bought a journal before I begin writing in it... Yeah, definitely NOT neurotypical.

I have general journals for regular notes I take while watching certain YouTube videos. I have separate journals- 1 for my sci-fi and 1 for my fantasy. I ain't doin' that no more! Fantasy and science fiction can share a journal. They’re thicker than the journals I used to buy.

Also, the comic, Summer to Winter, has its own library. It used to share with other stories, but I quickly learned to give it its own journal "series."

Journals save my life--I'm serious!

I have a library of journals. No. I'm not kidding. And I don't mean figuratively. I mean I LITERALLY have enough journals to line at least two shelves! Or maybe more!

This is due to my obsession with seeing cute diaries, artistic journals, and provocative covered notebooks. These are inevitably hardcover. I prefer the hardback kinds. They survive.

For many years, I purchased those with spines, the more they resembled an actually hardcover book, the better. If I found the kinds that had false leather look, gold trim pages, and a satin bookmark, AWESOME.

I guessed that the more a writing journal looked attractive and prestigious, I figured it would compel me to write. But I learned that was quite the opposite.

Those reference-looking diaries went on my shelf, to keep track of dreams that were repetitive or especially troubling. So when I returned to just simple hardcover journals, the writing flowed. Screwy, huh?

I changed my tastes yet again. No more journals with spines. Now I went to spiral notebooks. But they're still artsy, heavily decorated, and provocative diaries.