nPostednon September 22, 2013
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Innthis day and age, most people are too busy typing quick quips onnTwitter or crafting their online image with carefully worded statusnupdates on Facebook to want to write in a diary.
Innthis day and age, most people are too busy typing quick quips onnTwitter or crafting their online image with carefully worded statusnupdates on Facebook to want to write in a diary.n
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nButnwriting that is intensely private, writing that is intended to alwaysnstay private, is very different from tweets and other social medianmessaging. In a diary, you can pour your heart out, you can getnreally real, you can detail an upsetting dream, scribble sky-highnhopes, explore your deepest fears.
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Andiary doesn’t have to be an expensive, pretty book. It can be angrubby spiral-bound notebook—or, really, anything you can write on.nYou don’t have to worry about handwriting, spelling, or grammar—youncan just write write write.
Andiary doesn’t have to be an expensive, pretty book. It can be angrubby spiral-bound notebook—or, really, anything you can write on.nYou don’t have to worry about handwriting, spelling, or grammar—youncan just write write write.n
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nHerenare some diary-writing suggestions:
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nWikiHown suggests using an ordinary looking notebook like one you would usen for school, so nobody will know that it is a diary. Don’t telln people you have a diary, and don’t write in it in front of them.
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nOnn the other hand, Remembaryn suggests that you write anywhere, anyhow—even on your phone. Theren are some good tips here about how to build a daily habit.
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- Heren is a Pinterest board with lots of amazing ideas for art journals,n travel journals, Mama and Me journals in which you write lettersn back and forth (and which you leave under bed pillows), and even an Rolodex scrapbook!
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nReadna diary or diary-like novel. Here are a few suggestions:
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nDiary of a Wimpy Kid,nby Jeff Kinney
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nDiary of a Worm,nby Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss
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nDiary of a Wombat,nby Jackie French
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nAnne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
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nDinotopia: A Land Apart from Time, bynJames Gurney
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nA Gathering of Days, by Joan Blos
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nThe Princess Diaries, by Meg Cabot
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nAlice, I Think, by Susan Juby
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nCatherine, Called Birdy, by Karen Cushman
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nAlsonon this date:
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Hobbit Day
Hobbit Day
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nAutumnnbegins with the equinox in the Northern Hemisphere
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nElephantnAppreciation Day
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nAnniversarynof the Peace of Basel in Switzerland
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nPlannAhead!
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nChecknout my Pinterest pages on Septembernholidays, Septembernbirthdays,nand historicalnanniversaries in September.
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nAndnhere are my Pinterest pages on Octobernholidays, Octobernbirthdays,nand historicalnanniversaries in October.
