Writing on writing

[stellae]

I have been reflecting a lot on journaling as a craft, lately, in part because I have been reading a fair amount of travel writing lately -- not guidebooks, but essays and accounts like Bill Bryson's Neither Here Nor There, which recounts his travels through Europe in the early 1990s. I started reading this particular book because of an impending

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[shallwedance_]

I think of my journal as a sort of snapshot of my life at any particular moment. Therefore, the voice does not have to be fixed or uniform, but the more authentic it is, the better for posterity.

And, since you're not selling it for publication, don't worry about the audience too much. Friends will read your journal regardless. :p

[stellae]

hehe

because they're all voyeuristic and so on, just like me, right? ;-)