I was a teenage proto-blogger!

[vaxjedi]

Yup, I was, in fact, a teenage proto-blogger.

You see, in high school, my friends and I had these journals. Blank books (back before they were popular and you could maybe find two or three at a book store if you were lucky). We'd write in them,then pass them around, read each other's stuff, write in each other's journals, then repeat. So really, it was a primitive form of blogging. I kept my books for years, until I decided to burn them a few years after Miri was born. (I needed to feel like I was getting on with life - I'd discovered there were issues from high school I still hadn't let go of yet.)

So I remember this because, the other day, Eleri and I were at the book store and ran across some really beautiful blank books. I bought one, because it was just so cool. It''s got a leather-looking cover with gold etching that looks like it could be straight out of a Myst game. I also got a cheapo blank book.

Thing is, I've got two other blank books. I have one jadewaterflame gave me many years ago, and I have a blank sketch book with a green leather (real) cover with dragons on it that my friend Brett gave me from a Ren faire (of course, I found out after the fact that she'd stolen it for me).

So I am staring at these four blank books, unsure what to do with them. I do all of my writing and designing and tinkering on the computer - I have blogs, wikis (which are woefully underused) and even have a copy of OneNote installed (I actually use it at work for work related notes). I don't know how to write on hardcopy effectively anymore. I can't think of anything I'd want to commit to paper. It's to hard to edit, to hard to revise, which has become a cornerstone of my writing/thinking style. I really don't want to put something into the special books - they deserve something special.

So I am at a loss.

Comments

[vaxjedi]

It sounds interesting, but honestly, I'd never remember to mail out my pages... I'm horrible at getting things sent out on time.

[cabell.livejournal.com]

I write things in my blank books that are too embarrassing to show anyone, and thus have no particular reason to go in any of my blogs (I'm not big on private entries). And sometimes, words that I want to have particular force in the universe, which seems to me a paper kind of thing.

[vaxjedi]

I don't tend to write anything down I would mind someone knowing. As for particular force, yeah, I grok that. Don't know what I'd want that to be tho.

smile

[bloodlikerain.livejournal.com]

i'm glad you still have that.

[sitpadeshu.livejournal.com]

Keep them in places that you don't have a computer. :) Take one to work and keep one by the bed, etc. You can jot down random ideas that can later be transferred to your computer locations. It's how I keep track of designs that pop into my head. :)