#diary-writing

[writer-at-the-table]

[Diaries are a] genre to which women have always felt especially drawn. The diary was, after all, available to them for expression in centuries when their attempts to practice other forms of literature - say, produce a play - were considered presumptuous or silly.

A Book of One’s Own: People and Their Diaries by Thomas Mallon, page 19

[writer-at-the-table]

One can always have things as one wants them in a diary; it is easy to believe that one's own authorized version and the truth are the same thing.

A Book of One’s Own: People and Their Diaries by Thomas Mallon, page 209

[alienorajt]

Writing a Diary/Journal: 7.1-1972 onwards...

Writing a Diary/Journal: 7.1-1972 onwards…

Little did I know, when I opened the small green exercise book, on January 7th 1972, and penned the first sentence, that this diary habit would last me for decades rather than days – and is, in fact, with me still!

I had gone, with other members of my year group at school, on an activities fortnight to Glasbury in Wales – and we were all required to write a diary of our experiences while we were…

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