In the form of diary/ journal entries, write about someone who's just decided to take up journaling.

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“Diary 2020” by Matthew Gregory

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5th JanuaryDear diary, Hi, you may not know me but I would like to get to know you. From the moment I first saw you across that crowded stationery shop yesterday, I was in love. I just had to have you. I think that was mostly because you were half price and I just can't resist a bargain. 23rd JanuaryI don't want to be accused of being racist, and I don't mind darker skin, but do you think that navy blue is quite the right colour? White, brown or yellow are more traditional. You are right. It's what's inside that matt...

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“September 21st” by Katie Silverwolff

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Wednesday September 11thDear journal,Today Ms. Alberts told me I should start journaling. (That’s my new therapist btw.) She said I can do a virtual journal so I’m going to type this on my phone. So hi I guess. My name’s Vivianne Dowling. I’m a junior at East Cid High. This is stupid. And I’m not sure what else to say. Thursday September 19thDear journal,Ms. Alberts told me I can just tell about my day. This dumb. But she says I have to do it. So here it goes… I had a math test today. It didn’t go well. Mr. Perell says I can get extra c...

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“Bibbity Bobbity Boo” by Ananya Ak

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Entry on 9th AprilDear DiaryHi!Am I supposed to say hi to a diary? Maybe I am, I don’t know.I knew…I just knew starting this was a silly idea.But that idiot Sean, he gifted this dratted thing to me! Something about it being a good vent for my pent-up feelings and inner emotions.Inner emotions, my butt! He knows very well that writing a journal isn’t what I do.After all, what the heck should I even write?“I woke up in the morning, I brushed my teeth, I ate three biscuits, I took bath…”What can I even write at this time, anyway? I’m sitting ar...

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“My happily ever after.” by Sam Ho

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Friday, 5th JulyDear diary,This feels odd; writing to myself. The school councillor is forcing me to write this diary because, apparently, I am a "bully". Alice deserved it; she was flirting with Ricky. He isn't my boyfriend, but I keep him wishing. Alice and I have been best friends for years, but now she is trying to steal my crown as 'Queen Bee' of the school! Haha, small chance of that with no eye-brows! They almost expelled me, but I pulled the 'dead parents' card, it works every time! I suppose I can publish this diary, as a memoir, w...

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“The Secret Journal of my Normal Life” by Noel Thomas

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Wednesday, January 1st, 19978:10 AM - I secretly bought this journal at the local bookstore for $6.95. It is a secret because I want this to be mine and just mine. Grandma gave me some Christmas money and I was so glad that way I could buy a journal. I bought it so I can record my first teenage year. Yes, today is my 13th birthday and the start of a new year. My goal is to write every day so I can someday look back on what I did during my first year as a teenager. Not that I actually do anything now so I don’t know how interesting it will be...

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“You see, I'm a magician” by John Steckley

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You see, I’m a magician March 13Dear Diary: You see, I’m a magician. And it can be a tricky business. I write that as if it is news to me. But I want these diary entries to be recorded. I won’t be around this place long, so I want the story told. I’ve already left a note beside this diary that I purchased today. It tells the reader to give the diary and my wand to my nephew Todd. He has talked about maybe becoming a magician. I’m moving on to where people have never heard of me. ...

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“COVID-19” by Adrienne Parker

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March 17, 2020 Today is Tuesday, the first day we are out of school because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Yesterday, our principal held an assembly to tell us that we were getting out of school for two weeks. Since it’s only been one day, I’m not feeling confined in any way. It feels like any other weekend, so I’m not tired of being at home yet. That might get old soon, though. I won’t really be able to see anyone but my family and I won’t have too many mental exercises to do, except for the “enrichment activities” our teachers...

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“Princely Diaries” by C. Fallaci

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April 3, 1938.Well, that's finally over, and I'm glad of it. I hate dancing. I'd rather climb trees any day! My feet are still sore - especially after that clumsy princess Briane stepped on them while she was trying to waltz. What an oaf.Hundreds of people attended the ball - all the court society of St. Petersburg, Papa says. If you piled up all their jewels in a heap, it would weight at least a ton.Mother had a heachache and left before midnight. I wished I could have gone with her, but that would upset Grandmother. She is already annoyed ...

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“VERITAPHOBIA” by Andrew Grell

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VERITAPHOBIABy Andrew Paul GrellJanuary 22nd 2021They’ve told me I should maintain a journal from now on. That details will be increasingly important. The first detail was to figure out what the difference is between a diary and a journal. Dia is day in Spanish, Jour is day in French. Both languages from Latin. Big help. I shouldn’t even give them the courtesy of writing this in English. Let the bastards wade through my rusty Aramaic, it would serve them right. English is so top-heavy in synonymous bor...

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“Just Another Day at the Office” by Deborah Mercer

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DAY ONEHave decided that life might as well mirror art. Though I’m not sure if my scribblings (the fact that, at least sometimes, it is on screen, and therefore legible still does not stop it being scribbling) qualify as art. This is where I’m supposed to pretend this is a sudden brainwave that came to me in a dream. Well my response to that would be, as my little stepsister Morgan (we’re a complicated family) describes as dollops. Mind you, the little minx (who knows full well I worship the ...

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“Diary of the Family Disgrace” by Emma Hamilton

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March 15th, 2020 (Day 10 of therapy, 300 days till I leave home) I guess I'll do as the doc instructed and give this a go but I think the only reason why she suggested this was because she didn't want to listen to me anymore. That's what people always do; they suggest I talk to someone else, someone more "experienced". Someone who "knows more on the matter". It started with my friend suggesting I talk to my mother, and my mother throwing me in the car ,fast enough so the neighbors wouldn't see, and driving me to the "looney bin"That's ...

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“Scratching the Surface” by Saga Abrahamsson

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September 7 In my opinion, psychologists fall back on “mindfulness” and self-help strategies because they’re despicably unwilling to do their jobs properly. They expect us to it for them. But if we could, we would. It’s as simple as that. Then again, perhaps I’m being unfair; I’ve always suspected that most, perhaps all, therapists, psychologist, counsellors and what-have-yous are just profoundly incompetent. Never assume malice where stupidity would suffice. Who said that? I’m sure I’ve heard it somewhere, or something to that effe...

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“Penning it down” by Gideon Gichohi

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30.03.2020, MondayThis must be it. It must be the day that history takes root. I have read of all the great men and women whose journeys emerged from leather-bound books. I bought mine (a simple blue journal with rubber covers) the previous weekend and wow, I feel the words spilling out as if they had been in a dungeon for eons. As a first I give a weather report...sunny with a pure touch of lovely cherry blossoms. Ah! The air is appealing for outdoor events but of late home has been the new office. It seems pretty much that the lock-down in...

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“Journal vs. Diary” by Hamadryad 77

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dear JOURNAL since Diary is a silly word. It makes you look like a snoot. Hidden in your secret book, you tell tall tales of your life as I'm Better Than You. I, Milla, am not better than other people and don't like to say I am. I simply want to write down the things that happen to me, truthful, real things, so I can remember the whole thing more clearly and not be forever confounded by the little pieces that slip through the cracks. THAT is my introduction. Till the next we meet (which is tomorrow), fair friend in bound pages. dea...

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“The girl with problems!” by Jaden Lawrence-Olsen

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May 14Today I was told by my psychiatrist to write in this stupid journal. Why? She just said that it would help me with my "issues". What issues, I don't think I have any. She said that I have feelings that I won't let out and that it's "unhealthy" to hold in my emotions. That is so dumb. Well now, I have one more thing to worry about. After my "talk" with the psychiatrist, I went to my first hour, English. I've never like English, and don't really pay attention. So I just doodled on my notebook. I looked up and saw my crush, a boy named Ty...

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In the form of diary/ journal entries, write about someone who's just decided to take up journaling.

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✍️ 117 stories

“Diary 2020” by Matthew Gregory

“September 21st” by Katie Silverwolff

“Bibbity Bobbity Boo” by Ananya Ak

“My happily ever after.” by Sam Ho

“The Secret Journal of my Normal Life” by Noel Thomas

“You see, I'm a magician” by John Steckley

“COVID-19” by Adrienne Parker

“Princely Diaries” by C. Fallaci

“VERITAPHOBIA” by Andrew Grell

“Just Another Day at the Office” by Deborah Mercer

“Diary of the Family Disgrace” by Emma Hamilton

“Scratching the Surface” by Saga Abrahamsson

“Penning it down” by Gideon Gichohi

“Journal vs. Diary” by Hamadryad 77

“The girl with problems!” by Jaden Lawrence-Olsen

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