Chatterbox: Down to Earth

Journals!

Who else keeps a journal? I just recently started one. I have this really great notebook that I covered with stickers (has anyone heard of the brand Leuchtturm1917? It's the one I'm using), and I write in it every day.

It's a great place to write down poetry, story ideas, dreams that I've had, my feelings, stuff that's happened to me that day, and lots of random stuff. I also like to make sketches and doodle. And then, when I look back on it in a few years, there might be something that would give me inspiration for a story, make me think, hey, I wasn't too bad of a poet then! Or remember funny things that I did. I love it!

When I was siz or seven, I tried multiple times to keep a "diary". I either bought a small notebook or stapled some pages together, it all depended on what I wanted to do. I wrote down things like,

"Dear Diary,

Today I went to the grocery store with Mom. Then we went home. Then I had PB&J for lunch. Mom had a burrito. Ithink the burrito is spicy, so I don't like it. Tommorrow Mom, Dad, and all my siblings, and me are going to go to the playground.

Bye, Diary!

That's what I wrote. I wrote down boring things just like that. But I got bored of it after a few days, every time I tried doing a diary. Now a sample from my actual journal:

July 12, 2016.

I am suffering from a short period of writer's block. Ugh. I don't have any inspiration, or anything. This is BAD. A poem about writer's block:

Writer's Block

Stuck

Trapped

You can't 

Go onwards

Nothing can help

You desperately

Grab a piece of 

Paper

Scrawl some words across the

Top

Then

Cross them

Out

Your mind is blank

Stuck in a 

Deep

Snowdrift

Unmoving

Can't breath

And then the

Snow

Melts away

You startscribblingasfast

As you can

Goodbye, writer's block

Hello, inspiration.

Hm. Interesting. It's amazing what words can do. Just think- before J. K. Rowling came along, no one ever thought to dress up as a black-haired, black-robed boy wearing glasses when Halloween came along, did they? Nope. They didn't. 

The rest of that day's pages were photos that I pasted in and pictures that I drew.

So does anyone else keep a journal?