journaling using livejournal?

[sandhawke]

I think I'm going to start keeping a journal, for the first time in many years. You know, a personal, private journal, so I can get some of my thoughts about the day, etc, out... without having to find someone to talk to first. (and harder -- without having to find someone appropriately trustworthy, and appropriately interested

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[coraline]

i firmly subscribe to "it's your journal, write in it what you want to write."
personally, i like seeing people's quotidian stuff. if you're worried about screenspace, put it all behind a cut and no one has to go click if they don't care.
but i think LJ is a good place for this :)

[ghislaine]

What she said.

[drwex]

Thirded. I try to give a little text in the cut tag so people know what's coming up and can decide if they want the details or not, but otherwise I write whatever I fancy. (And have time for. I have a couple of big-ass posts brewing but life is too chaotic right now and I can't access LJ reliably enough.)

[lyonesse]

if i care about privacy, i make that stuff private. if i don't, i leave it public for the curious, on the grounds that it's good for folks to know what grinds away in other people's minds.

[maebeth]

I use 750words.com

[redheadedmuse]

I use Evernote for this kind of journaling.

[keyne]

I keep a folder on my laptop for periods when I want to do this kind of daily journaling. I'll agree with myself to write 500 words (or whatever length; for me, 500 has proved to be a good minimum length for freewrites) and then just, at the end of the day, just type. Good for clearing out my head.

I got the idea originally from Julia Cameron of The Artist's Way fame, only she insists that "morning pages" must be done first thing in the morning. In longhand. For three letter-sized pages. Fuck that -- I'm not a morning person and I type much faster than I write.

(And no, there's no way I'd post that kind of stuff to LJ. The idea is not to communicate with others, it's to skim the swirling thoughts off my brain.)