Hi all, I love to write. I have written stories in the past, some fiction, some about my own life but I mainly like writing diaries as it helps me cope with things and brings out my writing skills.

How many of you keep a diary and do you use to write in/on?

Hi all, I love to write. I have written stories in the past, some fiction, some about my own life but I mainly like writing diaries as it helps me cope with things and brings out my writing skills.

How many of you keep a diary and do you use to write in/on?

I have never kept a diary, and have never felt the need. My sister on the other hand has always kept a diary. I like to take each day "as it comes" and live just for that day. I dont feel the need to look back, or forward.

I keep a sort of 'day book' which is really work related.

The closest I have to a 'therapeutic' book is a journal I keep in which I document my dreams. I'm a great believer in the idea of dreams being the 'royal road' to the unconcious so I believe it's important for me to keep such a book.

It's a leather bound notebook with really nice, unlined paper in it - almost like vellum. I write in it with a fountain pen.

I keep a sort of 'day book' which is really work related.

The closest I have to a 'therapeutic' book is a journal I keep in which I document my dreams. I'm a great believer in the idea of dreams being the 'royal road' to the unconcious so I believe it's important for me to keep such a book.

It's a leather bound notebook with really nice, unlined paper in it - almost like vellum. I write in it with a fountain pen.

I love nice looking notebooks. Sometimes I buy them and never use them,just because they look nice. I would like to go back to a fountain pen, and have been thinking about it for some time. I would also like to use blotting paper, but dont know wether they still sell it.

I love nice looking notebooks. Sometimes I buy them and never use them,just because they look nice. I would like to go back to a fountain pen, and have been thinking about it for some time. I would also like to use blotting paper, but dont know wether they still sell it.


You can still get blotting paper, and I love fountain pens and good notebooks! In my work day book I write in pencil a lot, and use either automatic draftsman's pencils or drawing pens. For 'creative' writing notes I love yellow pads - they're fantastic.

I usually use ballpoints only for signing things that require carbon copies; I even use a funtain pen for cheques nowadays when I can. :)

When I went to junior school we were taught to write 'joined up' with ink pens that used an actual ink well! This was the late 1960s - I went to Junior school in 1968. By the time I went to secondary school it was fountain pens taht filled from bottles or cartridges - I was an ink bottle chap. :)

I'm very picky with my fountain pen - I am VERY loathe to let anyone else write with it, as once you've used it for a while the nib gets shaped to your style of writing. Writing in my dream journal is a pure pleasure with that pen.

I would have loved to have tried a quill pen & ink.

The closest I get to a diary is here on SF. Most of my daily warblings are on here, including my passing thoughts and ideas.


God Im so sad.

I would have loved to have tried a quill pen & ink.

When I was at secondary school we actually had a lesson when we had to make our own quill pen AND our own ink. I seem to remember the ink was based on oak galls - the remains of the nests of some parasite on oak leaves, I think. You boiled it up with some Iron Sulphate soemthing to thicken it a little....can't remember what we used there.

It worked! The quill pens were cut from feathers. I have no idea where we got 30 odd big feathers from - I saw no bald chickens in the area. :)

The hardest part was cutting the nib - and using it was a mare - but it was great fun!

I keep a sort of 'day book' which is really work related.

The closest I have to a 'therapeutic' book is a journal I keep in which I document my dreams. I'm a great believer in the idea of dreams being the 'royal road' to the unconcious so I believe it's important for me to keep such a book.

It's a leather bound notebook with really nice, unlined paper in it - almost like vellum. I write in it with a fountain pen.

Hiya Joe. I went to the local Public Library yesterday and picked up a book ...a brand new publication. You may find it interesting:-

Dream Decoder by Joules Taylor.

It categorizes subjects starting with the Natural World through Occupations....and ending with the Supernatural.....

I have only had time to take a quick glance at it as I type this, but I shall certainly give it a good look over. :thumbsup:

Hi all, I love to write. I have written stories in the past, some fiction, some about my own life but I mainly like writing diaries as it helps me cope with things and brings out my writing skills.

How many of you keep a diary and do you use to write in/on?

No i never kept a diary,there to incriminating if you no what i mean :hihi:

Shoeshine - thanks for that!

What I've found is that there are certain things that crop up in my dreams and I've begun to identify what they mean to me. It was only after I started keeping the journal that I saw the common themes - really interesting.

Shoeshine - thanks for that!

What I've found is that there are certain things that crop up in my dreams and I've begun to identify what they mean to me. It was only after I started keeping the journal that I saw the common themes - really interesting.


Most of my dreams at the moment seem to revolve about the time when I was working as a Sales Rep.....Now that I am retired from the rat race they seem more and more regular.

I seem to always be fighting against the odds....the sod's running the system seem to be causing all the problems in achieving my aims. :hihi:

I shall look that up. :) ;)

Never kept a diary, what if the authorities ever found it, shares would plummet, inflation would soar and there would be civil unrest, fortunately I have a good memory, now what were we on about? Oh yes! With regards to JoeP have you ever read “They used dark forces, by Dennis Wheatley”? That’s about dreams and the Astral Plain, good book as indeed are all his books.
On my desk I have a nice fountain pen, letter opener and old black telephone all perfectly working order but never used, it just makes one feel good to have nice things.

Hi, I mean writing for therapy really, not to remember things. I just find it helps and I try not to worry about if anyone found it, I do live alone now anyway.,

Hi, I mean writing for therapy really, not to remember things. I just find it helps and I try not to worry about if anyone found it, I do live alone now anyway.,

Yes, it certainly does help. It doesnt have to be a diary, Sometimes if you are worried about something or angry with someone, write it down, put it in an envelope, and look at it in six months time. You wouldnt beleive how troubles melt away, and you cant believe how you worried over something, that need not have done.

Hi, I mean writing for therapy really, not to remember things. I just find it helps and I try not to worry about if anyone found it, I do live alone now anyway.,

Coyleys - never encountered that book. I don't think I'll ever be a rider on the Astral Plains, though. Would probably get lost... :)

Sixytieslass - I actually find that recording my ddreams is quite therapeutic in that I can often see patterns in my dreams that give me some guidance as to what my current worries are.

I believe dreams can be warnings of forthcoming danger. Sometimes the dream never happens, but sometimes it does.

I don't keep diaries as such but various events in my life have lead me to write journals. When I travelled around Australia I kept a journal of the trip and now look back at the memories and I am so pleased I wrote them as and when things were happening. You never capture that same thought after the event and how you was feeling at the time.

Then again I think my handwriting resembles scribbles so I don't think anyone other than me could even attempt to read it back.:hihi:

I don't keep diaries as such but various events in my life have lead me to write journals. When I travelled around Australia I kept a journal of the trip and now look back at the memories and I am so pleased I wrote them as and when things were happening. You never capture that same thought after the event and how you was feeling at the time.

Then again I think my handwriting resembles scribbles so I don't think anyone other than me could even attempt to read it back.:hihi:

You sound as though youve had a very exciting life ,brisbane. Yes, I bet you were glad that you kept a journal. I also think smells(of a place) are important reminders.

Yes smells, they really do take you back to good and bad memories. I always hate the smell of tarmec, strange isn't it. I think it's because it reminds me of when I was in the infant school and at the time used to get picked on.

As for an exciting life, hmm I wouldn't say that but I think there has been highs and lows but has made me the person that I am now. All sent to try us and make us strong as my dad would say!:)

Yes smells, they really do take you back to good and bad memories. I always hate the smell of tarmec, strange isn't it. I think it's because it reminds me of when I was in the infant school and at the time used to get picked on.

As for an exciting life, hmm I wouldn't say that but I think there has been highs and lows but has made me the person that I am now. All sent to try us and make us strong as my dad would say!:)

Australia looks a beautiful place, and they say New Zealand is as well. Have you been there ?

No didn't venture to New Zealand but did manage to go all the way around Oz, it really is truely amazing. Beautiful place and such different things to see from the urban city life ( which I might add I found slightly scary at times) to the more rural laid back life ( that was more our cup of tea). Where it was just relaxed. Truly a lovely time in our life and memories treasured for eternity. :)

No didn't venture to New Zealand but did manage to go all the way around Oz, it really is truely amazing. Beautiful place and such different things to see from the urban city life ( which I might add I found slightly scary at times) to the more rural laid back life ( that was more our cup of tea). Where it was just relaxed. Truly a lovely time in our life and memories treasured for eternity. :)

How old were you ? I wondered if you were a student in your gap year.

God no I was 32!!! I was lucky that work let me have some unpaid time off. Before children came along and something we had always wanted to do. Glad that we did.

God no I was 32!!! I was lucky that work let me have some unpaid time off. Before children came along and something we had always wanted to do. Glad that we did.

Just the right age then. :)

It was, and now it's just right time for my bedtime I think and catch some zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz:)

It was, and now it's just right time for my bedtime I think and catch some zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz:)

Goodnight,brisbane, its been nice talking to you.Im going as well now.:thumbsup:

I don't keep diaries as such but various events in my life have lead me to write journals. When I travelled around Australia I kept a journal of the trip and now look back at the memories and I am so pleased I wrote them as and when things were happening. You never capture that same thought after the event and how you was feeling at the time.

Then again I think my handwriting resembles scribbles so I don't think anyone other than me could even attempt to read it back.:hihi:

Hi,

I'm in the same boat. Never kept a diary but I had to keep a journal for work. Then I kept my own journal. These began as books but once we were issued with laptops, it was stored on disc. I still have some discs but the rest were lost over the years.

I only kept a journal when I was travelling, because you usually had the time - even if you had to do it by the light of a hurricane lamp. I found that keeping a journal at home was next to impossible because of other demands on my time.

Re-reading old journals can be sometimes unnerving. You realize that your memory is parhaps not that sound and the sequence of some events isn't quite as you imagined.

Regards

Hi,

I'm in the same boat. Never kept a diary but I had to keep a journal for work. Then I kept my own journal. These began as books but once we were issued with laptops, it was stored on disc. I still have some discs but the rest were lost over the years.

Re-reading old journals can be sometimes unnerving. You realize that your memory is parhaps not that sound and the sequence of some events isn't quite as you imagined. Since retiring, I have been trying to reconstruct the missing parts but only the experiences, observations, etc. Not any of the technical stuff.

RegardsI see you were a Mechanical Engineer.My son has a degree in that subject. I can remember him with piles & piles of papers to study at University. He finished up working in I.T. in Washington DC.