ODing on online diaries in Back entries: 2013 - 2015

Granted, this isn't my first online diary. I've tried Livejournal, and to be honest I didn't like the layout. I do keep an Open Diary (but don't post there too often - I have had a diary there on and off since around 2004 or so, my current OD is from around September 2007). I keep forgetting to update on there!

I need to start up keeping a regular journal again. I do occassionally update my book journal (a "proper" one - a paper journal. I am a traditionalist, I love keeping a tangible journal. Online journals can be lost or deleted, and in this day and age a paper journal is so much more personal in my opinion!). However, I have a stop/start relationship with keeping a regular journal. I don't give myself enough time to write an entry and then it becomes two entries forgotten about. Then it's a week of entries, then a fortnight's worth. And then a month or two have gone by and I find myself suffering writers block when it comes to an "old journal" that needs filling. I then find a new, blank journal from my bookshelf and start the whole process again.

I really need to get myself back into the habit of journalling. I do find it enjoyable getting all my thoughts on to paper. The unedited me. Warts and all. Without editing.