Journal writers (Was Longing after the unattainable...)
Yosa
slg...@aol.com (SLGangi) wrote:
>>Yosa writes "I can read back to the time I am misssing, and remember that
>it >wasn't as great as I am making it."
>Ah, yes. There's nothing like a journal to kick you back to reality. Mine
>always shows what patterns I persist on pursuing. I'm getting better,
>though, and actually listening to myself for a change.
>I write in a huge artist sketch book, three times a day to once a month.
>And you?
>roxi (a semi-reformed brooding night creature)
>~~~"So that's it?"~~~
I have a lovely leather bound journal, series of journals, which I
frequently write in. I find it is really helpful to know what was
actually going on in my head in retrospect. It has saved me from over
romantisizing things, and longing after times gone by. I have found
it to be an incredibly valueable tool of self-discovery....
rambling on....
Yosa
"Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin,
Dance me through the panic, till I'm gathered safely in,
Touch me with your naked hand, touch me with your glove,
Dance me till the end of love." --L. Cohen.
little o
In article <330BB6...@ix.netcom.com>,
lucr...@ix.please-remove-this-spamtrap-now-netcom.com wrote:
> My father once joked that I have killed an entire forest in my
> pursuits of writing.
> At least, I think he was joking.
Hm, let's see. I have my Permanent Book of Poetry, my lil blue book of
poetry (almost filled--time to get a new one), my journal of despair
(which ironically is two inches in length, has cartoons on the cover, and
scented pages in multicolour flower designs), my journal(s), several
notebooks w/ random writings, the endless steno pads I go thru at the
computer... and the rest is written on random scraps of paper and stuffed
in a large portable file.
I'll be a writer yet.
little o
(who would finally get her shit 2gthr, if she only had a brain)
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Jack
Twilight <lucr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article
<330BB6...@ix.netcom.com>...
> <reviving what I thought was a dead thread>
> does anyone else have tons of notebooks for everything? I have one
> for poetry revisions, one as a journal (a little pretty one I
> got from Kruz, chinese print, ribbon bookmark, lovely pages with
> borders and such), a little one to keep quotes in, a notebook
> for story revisions.
<snip>
> poetry/stories binder, my novel idea notebook, my little Van Gogh
> book I keep by my computer for email addies and web sites.
> Lord, I waste a lot of paper
> Whips and Kisses---
> Twilight, who got a new binder today :)
> --
Well, I have one little, palm sized notebook I keep by the computer, to
scribble down stuff (since I don't quite trust the machine all the time,
I'm such a luddite. :) and one Journal for everything else. However, I
always get the five subject ones, and keep different sections for different
things. The second section I use for fiction and story notes and stuff
like that. Starting from the back inward, I use those pages for phone
numbers, directions, random notes, etc. The _front_ of the back section I
use for little sketches and stuff. I don't keep a lot of different
notebooks, because I carry mine with me everywhere, and use it for
everything. (Although I have been considering getting a couple of
notebooks of 3x6 cards for writing story ideas, random scenes, bits of
dialog, character sketches, etc. on, so that later I can sort them into
card files, rather than having to dig out old journals when I'm trying to
work.) For my Journal though, I don't use nice stuff, I just use regular
notebooks. If I used something really nice, I'd be afraid of wasting it
with the pointless drivel, and I'd never write anything.
(More than you ever wanted to know about Jack's notebooks.)
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-Jack-
"Death, it's not just for breakfast anymore."
Death Lynx
I keep a notebook which I have named "My Life" since if I ever lost it
everything important to me would be gone...It's a 5 Star Daily planner
with LOTS of spare paper for jotting down note or poems or the like...
"Keep on Deckin'"
Death Lynx
James J. Naumes
nau...@idol.union.edu
nau...@virtual.union.edu
http://www.vu.union.edu/~naumesj/
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Andrew L. Garman
Death Lynx wrote:
] I keep a notebook which I have named "My Life" since if I ever lost it
] everything important to me would be gone...
Mine is a USR Pilot 5000...
&ru
Andrew L. Garman
Twilight wrote:
] > My father once joked that I have killed an entire forest in my
] > pursuits of writing.
] > At least, I think he was joking.
This is why I stop writing any poetry or prose upon paper.
I do keep a sketch book fro doodles, oil pastel and oil pencils.
Sadly sometimes tree must make sacrifices. I count myself better
than my SO whose preferred surface is dead cow, goat or deer.
&ru
Noctis Amore
I used to do something like that...a book for everything, but lately I've
just started re-writing everything and consolidating it into several small
single volumes (I'm almost through the college years...only 5 more years to
go...phew!). And I think I know what happened to the rainforest as the
perfectionist in me has killed off several hundred pages at least with
multiple books for every occasion and the I don't like how that looks
::rip:: let's re-write it.
Noctis Amore
Twilight <lucr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article
Jim Rantschler
Twilight wrote:
> <reviving what I thought was a dead thread>
> does anyone else have tons of notebooks for everything?
Let's see:
White: Scribbles
Blue1: Philosophy-like stuff/poltical stuff
Blue2: Stories
Green1: Bullshit (Random: anything that comes into my head, always w/me)
[Below, I have the geek stuff]
Green2: Functional Analysis
Yellow1: Optics and Magnetism
Yellow2: Superconductivity (for work)
Red: Non-standard Analysis.
So, there are eight active and a bunch (some full, some discarded)
sitting under an end table in my apartment.
JR
Yosa
Twilight <lucr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
><reviving what I thought was a dead thread>
>does anyone else have tons of notebooks for everything?
Yes, yes, oh gods yes!
I have a large collection of journals, some full, some outgrown.
Notebooks, costume mourgues, sketchbooks, poem collections, phone
nimber collections, scrapbooks, you name it. To add to my use of the
worlds paper, I adore, and collect elegant stationary.
Charlotte Ashley
> Twilight <lucr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>><reviving what I thought was a dead thread>
>>does anyone else have tons of notebooks for everything?
I keep one series of binders in which I do most of my sketching, writing,
thinking, ripping, doodling and whatever else translates onto paper.
Lovely things, them. Generally speaking I want to burn the damn things,
but I suppose when I'm old and wise I'll want to look back on them and see
what a little git I was then.
Leanan Sidhe, who is paranoid about feeling sorry for herself.
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http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bi284
Life is one big ink blot.
little o
In article <5ehvrk$h...@news.ysu.edu>, alga...@cis.ysu.edu (Andrew L.
Garman) wrote:
> Sadly sometimes tree must make sacrifices. I count myself better
> than my SO whose preferred surface is dead cow, goat or deer.
What about your own flesh? Sadly impermanent, but then, isn't it all.
little o
(who has discovered that this also freaks ppl out. When will it all end?)
Andrew L. Garman
little o wrote:
] alga...@cis.ysu.edu (Andrew L.
] Garman) wrote:
] > Sadly sometimes tree must make sacrifices. I count myself better
] > than my SO whose preferred surface is dead cow, goat or deer.
] What about your own flesh? Sadly impermanent, but then, isn't it all.
I've suggested she make vellum out of human hide. Unfortunately
it tears easily and isn't at all elastic. I'd paint on myself, but I'd too
soon run out of surface. That and a gallery showing would be difficult:
I'd either not fill up the room or dearly miss my limbs as they are matted
and framed.
So I kill things for my artistic pleasures. Papyrus is a good
renewable resources. Unfortunately it isn't widely available.
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david hansen
Twilight (lucr...@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
[snip stuff about the tree killer]
I have only one curent book. It's one of those spiral books that the paper
rips so nicely out of. I use it for everything, doodles in the front few
pages, web things at the last few pages written in all directions, ideas
and rambling thoughts just after the doodles, and last but not least the
other pages are for school (funny there seems to be the most room there).
I have put a few things on the front, most noticeable is the magnet, which
everyone seems to absentmindedly pick at. That really pisses me off because
I have no idea why people do that.
Once someone asked why I had it there but didn't pick at it, and as I was
telling him the reason he started picking at it. Damn BASTARDS, leave my
magent alone. WHY do you have to pick at it.
Farmguy
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The Mad Scribbler
alga...@cis.ysu.edu (Andrew L. Garman) gasped frantically:
> I've suggested she make vellum out of human hide. Unfortunately
>it tears easily and isn't at all elastic. I'd paint on myself, but I'd too
>soon run out of surface. That and a gallery showing would be difficult:
>I'd either not fill up the room or dearly miss my limbs as they are matted
>and framed.
Hey, if anyone knows where some good quality *genuine* vellum sheets
can be obtained, please let me know! (No, human skin does not count
as genuine vellum... In the case of Scary Gary, I'll make an
exception however...)
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Ren MacRodman
I keep a "Notebook of Shadows" but never take it anywhere. I just
remember it and write it in because I'm too lazy to turn on my computer
and type it in. Also, I need to practice my writing because I can barely
sign my name anymore because I type so much.
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Christy Michelle Rickert
Excerpts from netnews.alt.gothic: 19-Feb-97 Poll? Notebooks...Re:
Journ.. by Twil...@ix.netcom.com
> does anyone else have tons of notebooks for everything? I have one
Heh...
Okay, for most of Junior high and high school, I kept notebooks full of
lyrics (an obsession that started in Girl Scout camp...)
Then I got to college and started my obsessive journal keeping...that's
up to about five now...
Then there's my regular note taking notebooks...the ones I write my
director's notes on...the ones I write my producer's notes on...the ones
I takes notes on in class and the ones I copy the notes into after
class...
I used to have one of just scrap paper, but they all get used for that now...
Xaoc
Mike Jourard
Through the darkness of night and in the fullness of time on 20 Feb
1997 08:28:53 GMT, it was that "Jack" <ja...@apex.net> wrote:
>Twilight <lucr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article
><330BB6...@ix.netcom.com>...
>> <reviving what I thought was a dead thread>
>> does anyone else have tons of notebooks for everything? I have one
[snips]
>Well, I have one little, palm sized notebook I keep by the computer, to
>scribble down stuff (since I don't quite trust the machine all the time,
>I'm such a luddite. :) and one Journal for everything else. However, I
I always have a pad of paper at the computer for writing down things
the computer can't record at the time: IDs and passwords for web
sites, crapped-out graphics that I have to fix later, phone numbers,
dress sizes and body measurements, miscellaneous URLs, and such. Yeah,
I know there are programs available to record all that crap, but
sometimes it's easier to use the old fashioned methods. 8-)
[snips]
>use for little sketches and stuff. I don't keep a lot of different
>notebooks, because I carry mine with me everywhere, and use it for
>everything. (Although I have been considering getting a couple of
>notebooks of 3x6 cards for writing story ideas, random scenes, bits of
I don't want to plug brand names but I found my Day-Timer binder just
perfect for that sort of thing. I keep a supply of blank pages in
stock and if I get an idea (Hey, it happens once in a while!) I just
jot it down. Later, if I don't need the page active anymore, I take it
out of the binder and put it in an archive somewhere.
..Mikey who also has VOLUMES of journals spanning a decade plus.
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Eleanor, the Megaflow Junkie
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997 23:52:29 -0500, cc15...@mail.idt.net (little o)
wrote:
>Hm, let's see. I have my Permanent Book of Poetry, my lil blue book of
>poetry (almost filled--time to get a new one), my journal of despair
>(which ironically is two inches in length, has cartoons on the cover, and
>scented pages in multicolour flower designs), my journal(s), several
>notebooks w/ random writings, the endless steno pads I go thru at the
>computer... and the rest is written on random scraps of paper and stuffed
>in a large portable file.
It's great to see I'm not the only one here with a notebook obsession;
only mine's grown into a neatly-arranged ringbinder habit as well !
1-4 lyrics (finished, half-finished, rough ideas, odd rhymes)
5 astrology
6-7 physics
8-10 geeky computer stuff
11 guitar riffs
12-15 roleplaying campaigns
16 my great unfinished gothic sci-fi novel
17 the journal I kept when I was learning to love my gender
then of course there's all the back-ups on my hard disk >;)
- Eleanor, THE MeGafLow JUnkiE
transgender: a tired label gender punk: a way of life >8^)
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David Gerard
On Fri, 21 Feb 1997 18:33:56 -0800, Ren MacRodman (r...@goodnet.com) wrote:
:I keep a "Notebook of Shadows" but never take it anywhere. I just
:remember it and write it in because I'm too lazy to turn on my computer
:and type it in. Also, I need to practice my writing because I can barely
:sign my name anymore because I type so much.
Same here. Get a fountain pen. Once you figure out the right way to hold
the thing, handwriting becomes an actual *pleasure*.
The fountain pen is a 30th b'day present from my birth-mother. It is
not one of those ones with the pissy little cartridge (designed to make
you consume stuff), but has the mechanism where you can use the pen to
suck up ink out of the bottle. Cooooool.
It *flows* over the page.
And doesn't leave an impression on the sheet below.
Try it. You'll like it.
--
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know who you'd talk to, nooooooo, not me, and besides, we^H^H *they* use VR
simulators. Or send out bogus free-passes to Q-Zar for a specific date and
time to the ex in question and then show up with all of their friends, dressed
like La Femme Nikita in combat boots. Not that I've been there or anything."
(Sarah Anne Smith)
Darkmoon5
now that you mention it, i am a note book freak
financial notebook, note notebook, shopping list notebook
journal, poetry notebooks, dream notebooks
computer notebook, i used to carry 2 in my purse
im down to 1
i must have 20 total, not counting ones i've thrown away