Journaling: A Personal Journey

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Besides doing my writing and artwork, I also keep a personal journal, and ones as well for each book project I do.  It can be nice to take a break from my regular writing, but to still write.  I write just about every day.

I think journals throughout time have been significant from Samuel Pepys to Anne Frank.  Novels tell great stories, but journals can tell first hand personal stories that can show us many things and reveal a part of history.

I also keep project diaries for each book project I write.  It can help me to collect my thoughts and see where things are progressing.  My personal journal also allows me to express myself about the things around me and about life.

I also enjoy reading others’ journals such as Mary Shelley’s journal of her time in Italy with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.  I will sometimes go back and read my old journals––it’s nice to go back and revisit memories.  So, I think journals are important as they are a record of a life and also a certain time in history.  They really are a personal journey.

And I guess my online blog is like my online journal.  I look forward to continue sharing this journey with you.––L.P. Kirkbride, May 2018