Writers keep journals because they like to write between projects, or they have other subjects to get off their minds besides the one they are writing about. They sometimes keep a journal because they want to write about their subjects in an unstructured way. They write journals because they like to keep writing.
Shelia Bender in The Writer's Journal, edited by Shelia Bender, 1997
Shelia Bender in The Writer's Journal, edited by Shelia Bender, 1997
I keep a journal for many reasons... I know that I will never write my great bestselling book, but writing my journal makes me feel like a writer anyway, even though I have nothing to say and no one cares. I'm just an old dumb@$$ who likes to write. I'm sure that sounds silly, but there it is.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's silly at all.
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