We love: Keel’s Simple Diary
Over the last few months, we’ve become absolutely addicted to Keel’s Simple Diary, a way for non-diary people to become diary people.
Many writers including Sylvia Plath, John Cheever, Albert Camus, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky kept volumes of journals but we’ve never been able to keep one up. With this journal, we’ve found the perfect marriage of prompts and open ended questions. This small page gives you the opportunity to write as much or as little as you desire while documenting your daily goings on in a fun, low pressure format. We love.
I keep a journal but can’t seem to write in it everyday.
Very Cool I did something like this for each of my parents. Me, I write in my journal a lot. Now I need to invent something like a time mechine or be killed by some tragic loser on a killing spree so they will be discovered and read.
As someone who’s journaled more than 40 years now (rarely daily, usually once or twice a week), you have me reflecting on the initial part of the page, before I get to the deeper stuff, if there’s time. Usually I’m left with notes that remind me later of what might have really been on my mind — things I might have written out in there had been more time.
My entries often start with the date (yes, we could fill in a blank), something about the weather, recent literary work and acceptances, and an attempt to try to catch up with the other events of the past few days. So much, in other words, that could be a simple fill-in-the-blanks routine.
For me, the underlying emotional and spiritual awarenesses are the last thing I get to in this process, and that’s if I’m lucky.
You might be pointing me in a new direction.
V. Interesting, never heard of keel’s diary before. May need to get myself one.
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