Are you a beginner, or are you considering if you should start a journal? Are you more experienced? Feel free to ask all your questions here, to share tips, tricks, pictures of your journal, anecdotes. Anything related to keeping a journal is welcome in this weekly thread.
Why weekly?
We have a steadily growing community and we’re now 418 members! But we don’t have that much active members (which is fine, don’t get me wrong). My idea with the weekly thread is to encourage people to participate and to hopefully give it more visibility. It also makes it simpler for lazy-me to regularly publish new content ;)
If it needs to be said, you don’t have to post your questions, discussions in this weekly thread. Not at all. You also don’t have to talk about this week’s theme. It’s just a trigger or an invitation you can completely ignore. I would even encourage you to talk about anything else, as well as to start your own threads.
This week theme
Do you journal about all the shit happening in the world, far or nearby, or is your journal more intimate?
My daily handwriting practise usually consists of going through the alphabet with random words, e.g. "Aphid agony. Barber beef. Crash calamity."
I often use this to put the news cycle on paper so it's out of my head. It can get fun to think of phrases that fit the pattern, though I'm probably never going to beat "Kremlinoid kakistocrats."
I like that. A lot :)