tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post2531759201469976044..comments2023-10-11T09:22:33.136-04:00Comments on Paperback Writer: WinnerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-72714844907923309192007-09-04T15:59:00.000-04:002007-09-04T15:59:00.000-04:00I used to journal quite a bit when I was younger, ...I used to journal quite a bit when I was younger, then it fell off during high school. At the end of my college years I discovered blogging and rediscovered my love of writing. I know hardly anyone reads my entries, but that's okay. *I* will read them, and wonder that I could have ever felt that way five years ago, etc. I'd love to see a diary of someone in my family. It might not be fantasy, but it's a point of view from another time, and that can be just as fantastic.Etoilinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02348484666219343927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-23913798421788521082007-09-02T13:39:00.000-04:002007-09-02T13:39:00.000-04:00Congrats, Hanna!Despite my mother's efforts when I...Congrats, Hanna!<BR/><BR/>Despite my mother's efforts when I was a child, I never have been much of a journaller. I guess some of us is and some of us ain't.nonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00415222406280230021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-64800326558937806452007-09-01T21:18:00.000-04:002007-09-01T21:18:00.000-04:00This is great... I have been journaling since befo...This is great... <BR/><BR/>I have been journaling since before I could write (red crayons and paper). <BR/><BR/>Yesterday, I found something I wrote while on cytoxan. It was powerful and scary. I wanted to cry.<BR/><BR/>CynCyn Bagleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08404416186783891402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-69607467958180392562007-09-01T14:03:00.000-04:002007-09-01T14:03:00.000-04:00Let me see if I have this straight: you have in yo...Let me see if I have this straight: you have in your possession an account of the life and times of a Civil War nurse <I>and</I> you've been anthologized in a book for which Erica Jong wrote the preface?<BR/><BR/>I'm going to need a bit of alone time to deal with my envy.<BR/><BR/>Wow.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and congrats Hanna.Shawn Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18082510455223060530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-61153427105977659492007-09-01T14:00:00.000-04:002007-09-01T14:00:00.000-04:00I've been thinking a lot about journals as well. T...I've been thinking a lot about journals as well. The value of Pepys' diaries, or Thoreau's, or your great-grandmother's, is in the accumulation of many entries over time. A single day can be pretty boring, but following the person's life over weeks and months is fascinating. (Pepys online is well worth a visit: http://www.pepysdiary.com/ There was a similar project on Thoreau's diaries, but I think the organizer abandoned it.) <BR/><BR/>That's an important lesson for journal (and other) writers to bring to their own work. Whether you're writing for posterity or for yourself, the total body of work is more important than individual paragraphs. Don't get paralyzed by the desire for perfection, just keep writing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-56494031486169286822007-09-01T13:11:00.000-04:002007-09-01T13:11:00.000-04:00eeeeeee!eeeeeee!Hannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18416332641505948246noreply@blogger.com