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RE: Journal - 2/19/2009 2:16:14 AM

allthatjaz

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Being able to read the written word from a husband that was killed is very important to me. I have many letters with his thoughts and feelings that he wrote to me and its important that they are all in his handwriting.
Since then I have always written individual journals for my children and I now hand write a journal for Stephen too. I suppose its a little morbid to do this mainly for them to have something of me when Im gone but I know how precious those letters are to me.

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RE: Journal - 2/19/2009 3:23:39 AM

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I have never kept a journal

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RE: Journal - 2/19/2009 3:48:59 AM

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I do not have an online journal. I am very much a private person and prefer my thoughts and ramblings stay with me.

I do journal and am passionate about it. I have notebooks full of my writings and several journals on my word processor. I also keep a gratitude journal.

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RE: Journal - 2/19/2009 6:17:31 AM

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I was never much of a journal writer. I am to much like my mother sometimes and I want to go back and get rid of the paper later as the thoughts and feelings change, fade away etc. This is gone away to a good extent as I have gotten older. I have found writing in a journal to be very helpful in recent years. It also has helped document what happened on a daily basis. I find the feeling of the pen (I use fountain pens) gliding over the paper very relaxing and I love the texture and smell of the bound journals. I have two real frustrations with writing a paper journal and those are that when I write in them its not as eloquent as it I would like (and obviously you can't edit it like you can a digital journal.) This is exacerbated by the fact that I am often tired when I have the time to write and I have not found a good way around this since I need my productive time for other tasks. My second frustration is that it is difficult sometimes to find things again - and I tried writing topical journals and that didn't work well at all it was even more difficult to separate my life into distinct topics that didn't overlap. This has led to me to try an electronic journal.

I am actually trying two forms of electronic journaling. I am experimenting with a blog for those thoughts that I feel comfortable sharing, but for me it is also a way to share and post the photographs I take daily but encourage myself to be more creative and frequent in regards to my photography. In some ways I want it to be photographic journal instead of a literary one. Right now I am in the process of redesigning the site because about half the visitors were having issues viewing the photographs. Having a photographic journal also gets around my general unease of posting much of what I really journal about. I have both professional and personal/family reasons for not being completely comfortable with online journaling at the moment but I think it is the direction I should try to move so I am attempting to change my ways if only slightly.

The second form of electronic journaling that I am trying is actually in my opinion a hybrid between the online journal and paper journal. Not to mention it helps me maintain my online journal. I have a program for my computer that is an electronic journal. It allows me to maintain several journals at once, password protect individual journals and allow for the uploading of a journal to various blogs and websites. Within each journal are entries and the entries support pictures and other digital media. While it isn't pen and paper, for the amount of time I spend on my computer doing other things it makes it a lot easier to make a quick entry about something as it is happening or shortly thereafter then trying to find time to write later in the day.

One area I have not really thought about until recently was how did I want to journal and share my thoughts of my experiences/feelings etc of BDSM. I think this is one area where sharing them is not only helpful to others but it gives me different outlooks that can be useful when dealing with a situation. I'm not sure if CM's journal format is really what I am looking for or not. Although I am not sure which other venue I would rather use either.

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RE: Journal - 2/19/2009 6:33:01 AM

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The only time I've held a journal was when I gave in..my friends had been torturing me trying to get me to start blogging for 4 years.
I blogged for 2 days. Then I quit, I hate blogging lol the only journals I've ever done are the ones on here...

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RE: Journal - 2/19/2009 8:37:15 AM

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I have also written journals here. The journal i just started to write are for things that are not for public view. I know you can set filters t control who views online journels. I just perfer my Journal to be in my hands. If the journal site on the computer crashes i thinks you could lose it.

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RE: Journal - 2/19/2009 8:45:48 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: littleone35

[...] If the journal site on the computer crashes i thinks you could lose it.

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RE: Journal - 2/19/2009 9:51:50 AM

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I've always had a "paper journal". It started when I was a little girl, given one of those fancy one-year-diaries, with the little lock on the front and all that. I've always jotted down my thoughts, the day's happenings, and so forth; such things are fodder for the short stories I write; they help me clarify things; they remind me of things I need to do.

The act of first printing, then as I learned "cursive", of writing, in the journal has helped me develope a fairly neat hand, simply through practise.

While I love my computer, and all the nifty things it does, I don't think I'd ever take to "journaling" electronically. It wouldn't feel right, and it wouldn't feel personal.

And I can't conceive of online journaling, or "blogging". The stuff I write in my journal is private, it's not meant for public consumption, and aside from that I've never really understood the drive to blog anyway. Why in the world do you want strangers reading your inner thoughts? When the girls were little, I encouraged them to journal too. That was one of the ways the Purple Kid discovered her enormous (and now very lucrative) talent as an artist -- she illustrated the few sentences she used to describe a day's happenings. I also encouraged them to regard their journals, like their desks and purses (backpack for the Purple Kid but meh) as PRIVATE. That way, they in turn regarded my desk, and my bag, as private. So it taught a little piece of courtesy, as well as a little bit of self discipline -- sure, it's easier and faster and neater to type, but it's more rewarding to learn to write legibly and clearly and quickly.

This isn't to say that Soltic couldn't read my journals (they're now usually big spiral bound notebooks, colour coded by year. I know. OCD, that's me.) He could read them, if he chose. But he's the only person who could -- and he has never asked to do so.

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RE: Journal - 2/19/2009 9:55:20 AM

Morniel

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Oh, and Jaz? I don't think that's morbid at all. I think it's sweet. And I have my great-great-gran's journal -- the first woman of our family to leave Scotland. Talk about a precious relic. Maybe your journals will be that precious to your kids one day!

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RE: Journal - 2/19/2009 10:21:20 AM

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quote:

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I know many of you journal online. I was just wondering if any of you have old fashinoed paper and pen journals. I really don't like to journal online to me (no flames please just my feelings) it seems so oh i don't know cold, impersonal. I had a journal whan i was younger, but i have gotton away from it and i just bought a new one. Something about putting pen to paper lets me get thoughts, feelings, emotions out. It is bacisally just for me Master is welcome to read it, but i think he would find it boring.

So back to my orginal question how many of you have a paper journal? How many have a paper and online journal? Or just an online journal? What do you like/dislike about each method.

Lot of questions i know, but i am curious.

Matt's littleone

I like paper and pen journaling better than online. Just my preference. It feels more private and somehow that connection with the pen to the paper - don't know, just works better for me. I tend to get caught up in correcting typos, etc. online. I also don't feel the desire to share my deepest thoughts with everyone out there.

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RE: Journal - 2/19/2009 12:06:30 PM

TranceTara

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quote:

allthatjazz
I suppose its a little morbid to do this mainly for them to have something of me when Im gone but I know how precious those letters are to me.

In no way do I find that morbid. I think it is beautiful. I know I wish I had something like that from my mother as the Alzheimer's took more of her mind. I loved her no matter what, but I missed the woman she was as her memory kept going. What a precious gift to your children and Stephen.

I acutally bought a hand made journal at the Irish Fair couple of years ago and have not used it because it is so beautiful. lol This year when I attend I shall seek a quill so that I can enjoy the sensuality of pen and paper and writing more slowly to allow my thoughts to become more clear and who knows what I can tap into then.

Heck, J.K. Rowling wrote the last Harry Potter book by hand. She was ready to take a boat back to England because they wouldn't let her take the handwritten manuscript on a plane. She could have had any computer she wanted but chose pen and paper. There is something about that connection.

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RE: Journal - 2/19/2009 12:33:30 PM

slavemira

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mira gets writers cramp now when she tries the old fashioned pen in hand approach... darn computers take away so much!

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RE: Journal - 2/20/2009 4:46:28 AM

michelleryder

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I've kept a diary since June 2004 now. It's not a public read just one I save onto the computer for Master to read when he takes a fancy.

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RE: Journal - 2/22/2009 3:07:35 PM

whis31

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Master requires an emailed journal daily for this slave. i've never been a into writing weather online or paper and pen. Master likes the online because if i'm having a rough day at work i can log on at a break and write a quick journal entry so he knows what is going on with me at all times.

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RE: Journal - 2/23/2009 11:40:13 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: littleone35

So back to my orginal question how many of you have a paper journal? How many have a paper and online journal? Or just an online journal? What do you like/dislike about each method.

Matt's littleone

I think of a card I framed ~ a young lady sitting at a roll top desk, next to a sunny window, quill and paper before her ~ no, my hand writing does down hill quickly. Once I found private blogging, the other was history. My thoughts come faster than my slow hand and poor penmanship can keep up with, but the key board is forgiving with spell check. I do regret not journaling during a short period of my life, when abroad.

"I learn by going where I have to go." ~~ Theodore Roethke from "The Waking"

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RE: Journal - 2/23/2009 5:43:23 PM

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I tend to do a little of both..though I havent wrote in my paper jounral in a while...which this thread as reminded me I need to. I love just sitting down and letting my thoughts flow free on paper and going back re-reading what I wrote in the past and seeing how much I have changed and grown. To me it doesnt matter which a person uses...I just think a journal is a wonderful thing to have. :-)

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RE: Journal - 2/23/2009 6:46:39 PM

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I use an online journal. I have it set up for daddy and myself. We both use it and it's nice.

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RE: Journal - 2/23/2009 7:37:39 PM

catize

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My handwriting has gotten worse over the years due to Parkinson’s Syndrome. It’s a symptom called micrographia, and before I was on meds that worked, I couldn’t read my own handwriting! No sense in writing my memories if it’s gonna be illegible! So I do love my computer.
However, I kept a handwritten journal for several years after my son was born. And I handwrote one daily during the only vacation I ever took ‘just for me.’ I am very glad I have them. I read and am transported back to some happy times.

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RE: Journal - 2/24/2009 4:42:24 PM

CharmedAnne

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I have two paper and pen journals both with about 3 entries each. I just forget! I like using my cm page to journal on because people respond (and usually remind me I am not crazy). I have had a dominant require a written journal, and I did it, but was usually last minute and really forced.

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RE: Journal - 2/24/2009 6:22:12 PM

chamberqueen

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I keep a journal on my computer - not online - that I keep open in the background most of the time. I write whatever I want to in it - the good things, the times I am confused, and rants.

I keep a second journal that is one of my most treasured possessions. It is a book made with handmade paper that was a gift from a friend who felt that I needed to spend more time thinking about the positive things in my life. Only happy thoughts to into it - kind things people have done for me or wonderful moments within the lifestyle. I carry it with my on business trips and pick it up and read entries whenever I need a lift. I found a tendency in myself to remember more insults than compliments (comes from not trusting that the compliments are real and being too willing to believe insults - a little insecurity working) but when I can go back and reread some of the very nice things that people have said or done then it really brightens my day. I wouldn't think of keeping that in any other medium than paper and ink.

When I still had an account on CM my journal reflected the concerns of others and I tried to use it for teaching and/or encouragement. I still have a friend who remembers an entry I wrote about "Three Little Words", saying that there are many ways to show you care other than saying "I love you". It can be just two words: "good girl", "well done", "thank you", and how we should never discount those things.

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