| wheresmytoad @ 2004-05-28 22:32:00 |
| Current mood: |  thoughtful |
People have been discussing Professor McGonagall's pronouncement that we're all to be graded on the journaling project. I've heard some grousing about it. I thought about going back and sort of adding entries, back-dating them, but then I realised that was silly. I know I haven't written very often or much, but it's no use going back and pretending otherwise now.
I suppose I never felt entirely comfortable with the project, because, well. I didn't expect my thoughts were the least bit interesting to anyone else. (Sometimes they're not the least bit interesting to me, either.) It's true; I hardly ever get comments from anybody.
But, there's something there about the journaling project, something that I did pick up, that I didn't expect to. I'd never written stuff down very much before and this forced me to do it. And though I didn't like being all public about things, I found I rather liked the writing.
I've kept a gardening journal for the last three years, a parchment one. It started out as simply a sort of ledger where I kept my notes on hybridised plantings. Rather dry and technical. But when I was working on designing the bonsai for Sara, I started making sketches of bonsai, and then writing notes in the margins about them, and what with the LiveJournal project, I was thinking about writing in general.
And I started writing. I'd practised a little in this LiveJournal, and got a taste for it, but didn't like doing much publicly. So I started doing it privately, in my garden journal. It's really turned into something else, now, entirely just for me. I expect I have this project to thank for that, for the discovery I like writing for myself a bit. I reckon I'll keep doing it after I leave school.
Comments:
| missgranger @ 2004-05-29 01:16 pm UTC |
I'm pleased to hear that you'll continue keeping a journal after school. I think I will, too. In fact, this project has encouraged me to keep a personal journal as well, which I never really thought well of before. I'm certain I have nothing interesting to say, either, but sometimes it is cathartic to simply express yourself.
See, you don't want boring comments like that from me all the time, do you?