Oh. I answered the poll without reading the description. I've always kept a "writing journal" but I don't think I've ever been pretentious enough to call it a "writing journal." I just write stuff.
I have a kind of general journal, but I use that to write about my life, as well as ideas I have that don't fit as well into the literary category. Then again, I've had stories come out of the Socratic dialogue I sometimes work through in there. Inspiration can come from anywhere, really.
"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing" -Socrates
I keep one on me all the time not knowing when or even what I'm going to write. As soon as an idea pops into my head I take out my note book and jot it down and try to piece it with my other ideas to see if I can create something. I'm so scared of getting an idea and then realizing that I don't have a note book at all so I have like ten of them at home sitting on my desk for when I need them.
I keep a few journals around for when I get that random burst of inspiration and I just have to write it down so I don't forget it does that count? haha
Yeah, what in the world is a "Writing Journal"? I mean, I have prayer journals and devotional journals and novel note journals and random story journals and poetry journals.... but a "Writing Journal"? Just the sound of it makes me feel intimidated...
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity. -Kafka
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. — T.S. Eliot
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