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Journal - 2/18/2009 2:19:36 PM

littleone35

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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.

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RE: Journal - 2/18/2009 2:21:40 PM

VampiresLair

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I have an online journal, as does Fox. Neither of us have paper journals. Aside from the fact that we both have such horrid handwritings that a paper journal would be unreadable days after writing, we both like the ability for anyone to read our thoughts. I get nothing out of venting to myself on paper, but online where others can see what I have to say occasionally makes things better.

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RE: Journal - 2/18/2009 2:50:37 PM

alysia

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Master likes His slave to keep a journal and for her to type it up and email it to Him (we are in a LDR) daily; so His slave jots certain thoughts down and makes little notes in her paper journal throughout the day... it makes it easier and have actually grown to like keeping a journal. There have been times when this slave has been tempted to keep a few thoughts back from Master in His copy but have never actually done it... there is no point.

Don't know if this slave would like just anyone to be able to read her innermost thoughts and feelings; they are too personal to her to share with stangers. If other's like to share their journals and if it helps them in some way to do so that is great, this slave doesn't think it's a bad thing to share them with the world, it just isn't for her.

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RE: Journal - 2/18/2009 2:52:29 PM

came4U

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I have been typing for so many years for work and pleasure that when I have to write a school note....I forget how to even use a pen LOL.

I prefer to type, my nice hand writing seems alien to me and unfortunately handwriting (to many) is a lost art.

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RE: Journal - 2/18/2009 3:21:15 PM

OmegaG

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I'm an attention whore. I like the on-line interaction. I tried keeping a pen and paper journal but it lasted about a week.

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RE: Journal - 2/18/2009 3:29:31 PM

wordstoponder

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I have been journaling for quite some time. In high school, I started having an online blog, foolishly detailing my emotional turmoil and internal chaos, as well as teenage angst and lust, and the beginning of my exploration of D/s. After taking a creative writing class that required a pen-and-paper journal, I kept at the habit. Sometimes I write and write and write, while other times I am in a writing dry spell, a drought of words. I also keep a blog on political/social issues.

I don't write because of Master. I write for the sake of writing, and sometimes for the sake of myself. I express myself best through writing and understand my thoughts and emotions when I see them written down. However, sometimes I shove my journal at Master and have Him read an entry or two so He can get some insight into how I'm feeling.

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RE: Journal - 2/18/2009 3:33:32 PM

KyttynTheMynx

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I have several journals, online and paper. I update the online ones more often because if I am working through an issue, it helps to get other sides to it. I tend to choose my online journals based on their privacy settings. For instance, on myspace, I have entries for everyone and their brother to read, entries for a preferred list for those semi TMI things, and some are marked diary that NO ONE can get into. I dont know if my lj has it, but then again, thats the least updated one.

My paper journals are just 3 ring binders or 3 subject notebooks because they offer more space for a better price, and I can decorate them how I want (my favorite has Johnny Depp on the cover).

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RE: Journal - 2/18/2009 4:35:28 PM

lovingpet

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I have never gotten into online journaling and don't know how I would like it. I do know that I express myself better on paper. There is something about sliding through the penstrokes and literally seeing where my thoughts trailed off and began again that really is needed for my words to flow the way I desire. I also find that I can place pictures, clippings, and other things of significance in the paper journal in such a way that it feels like a real history of me and my world. I can upload into an online journal I'm sure, but the raw edges and yellowing tape would be sorely missed and it would lose its impact to me.

There is something more intimate about the papers of a journal and placing it with care in its rightful place that makes it my choice. Perhaps I'm just old fashioned.

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RE: Journal - 2/18/2009 4:45:40 PM

BeIgnited

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When I write in general I prefer to do it by hand (particularly when working on poems--prose can be started on the computer). I have stacks and stacks of notebooks at home.

He had me journal by hand at first, but we've switched to an online one so he can see it on a day to day basis. I also have an online journal that I've had since I was in the 7th grade, though my postings are much more sporadic nowadays.

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RE: Journal - 2/18/2009 5:08:57 PM

camille65

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I've been an online journaler for a decade or so. Growing up I had the old-fashioned pen and paper type and enjoyed using that format until physical problems made it easier for me to use a keyboard.

I miss writing things by hand, the scritch of the pen on paper and simply the look of a handwritten journal. I'd always planned on keeping my diaries, keeping an online diary into old age just doesn't feel the same even when printed out. It seems to lose something, but I take what I can get so I am happy that I can type my journal. It's much better than nothing.

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RE: Journal - 2/18/2009 5:46:12 PM

DesFIP

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Never kept a dairy, don't have a journal. He had thought about me keeping one in the beginning but it seemed too masturbatory to be writing to myself. So I just wrote him long, extensive emails, several times daily. Over the years, of course, the need to explain myself and my reactions has diminished since he knows so much more of me than then.

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RE: Journal - 2/18/2009 6:08:15 PM

KatyLied

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I prefer on-line journals because you can post pictures, links, etc, more fun than the paper and pen type.

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RE: Journal - 2/18/2009 7:13:28 PM

pinkwind

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i used to hand write a journal/diary type thing, it was my sanctuary from a basically lonely if long lived marriage. i poured everything into it, my thoughts and aspirations, odd poetry and insightful doodles and drawings, the works. Those books kept me from going crazy.

i kept them going for years, more so in the latter days after my kids had grown and flown, but once i had figured out that it was time for me to get myself up and out of the relationship there came a point in time when they were no longer relevant.

Once i knew there was more than a possibility of a new beginning for me i read the whole lot over a couple of months, cried and mourned the former me, and then took them to a quiet place where i burned them all.

These days i cannot hold a pen for long, can't even write a letter in one go, and that aside i have a completely different life than i did before, one that does not need a special place to hold all that is me. Now i type when the mood arises for the edification of those who know my blog thing exists, or those who accidentally fall over it. but mostly for me to say those things that have been overlooked or are spur of the moment ramblings.

Just a different world, with differing needs.

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RE: Journal - 2/18/2009 8:04:11 PM

jaycie

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I keep both...my pen and paper journals are for my everyday thoughts and feelings. My online journal is open for people to read and comment on. My online journal is open for interpretation while the pen and paper is for my eyes only. I have shared portions of pen and paper journal with my Dom in the past but most of what occurs in their is my venting my frustrations.

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RE: Journal - 2/18/2009 8:19:56 PM

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I had paper journals that stretched back to my teen years, not that they were readable (combo of teen code language, dyslexia, and bad penmanship), but they are in lake Pontchartrain now. For years, like 17 or so I have kept some form of "notes to self" sort of journal on a computer. typing doesn't fulfill the tactile experience of the pen and paper, but the spelling is way better and all the letters are the right way up.

I kept two sets of journals as a teen, one for the therapists or parents to find and see and one for my private use, the one i put truth into. I think the forced therapeutic journaling was one of the more damaging parts of therapy for me because it taught me whole new ways to lie and hide my feelings.

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RE: Journal - 2/18/2009 9:16:38 PM

sultana1

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I use to write in a journal everyday.. But as I have gotten older, and more busier I havent even had time.. and I don't think and want to read all the silly stuff I wrote.

Now If I had a Master that required me to do it, I would.

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RE: Journal - 2/18/2009 9:42:53 PM

MasterFireMaam

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I don't. I dislike writing by hand because of my dyslexia. I HAVE had written journals and even have several chapters of a novel written by hand, but I haven't done anything intensive like that in years.

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RE: Journal - 2/18/2009 9:47:47 PM

Freakgirl4

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Both.....
I have my online ones for friends and family to peek into my world,but continue to write daily in a journal that I keep with me constantly.Like several others I enjoy pasting things in,and Master is welcome to read it anytime He likes.
I also practice the (sadly) almost lost art of writing letters snail mail style.....
Guess I am somewhat old fashioned myself.

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RE: Journal - 2/19/2009 12:07:27 AM

susie

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I have a diary which doubles as an appointment diary and a journal. I find myself writing in it at various times during the day. Each years diary is the same and they are lined up in a drawer at home. Master can read them any time he likes but never does as he knows pretty much all the things that go in there anyway.

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RE: Journal - 2/19/2009 12:18:05 AM

TranceTara

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I have a journal on my computer (not online) for when I need to get thoughts out quickly and I also have a large red one I barely write in. I always have a moleskin pocket journal with me and write in that quite a bit. Thoughts hit me, I jot them down and then I can expound on them in my larger journals, or write a song or poem.

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