Journal-Keeping

One way to get used to writing is keeping a journal. Not only can you record things you'd like to remember or stuff that's special, but it's a good way to practice describing things. In a book you can't really just say "The platform-thingy was a kind of blue with sort of floppy curtain thingamagiggans around the whatchamacallit", but in a journal you feel free to practice because it's usually made for your eyes only. The negatives about journal-keeping is when you've had an awesome but tiring day and you can't wait to go to bed and then you remember Oh, yeah, I have to write in my journal. Didn't I do that two days ago? No, I think I did it more like two weeks ago, and there was something I wanted to write in there but I forgot and I'm sure it was important and now I'm too tired to write now and my hand is going to fall off so I'll just get to sleep. And then the next day you forget all about it until a month has gone by and you stumble across your poor, neglected journal, which makes you start feeling guilty. If that's the case then journaling is probably not for you.

I just finished a journal and I was surprised how attached I got to it. So I started another one up right away. That's probably how you tell that keeping a journal is your thing.

Izori