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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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“Kiss of the Snake” by Zilla Babbitt

Yellow Day Today is a yellow day. The sunlight sneaks in through the window, writhing on the floor like a snake. Outside, the leafy pecan tree shakes in the wind. To be honest, I do not write. When I do, it is facts and information. In the city I did not have time for poetry or pretty words. No one wanted pretty words or expected it of me. But now, alone with the cold stone and cold yellow light and snakes made from the sun, I have time.

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“Art” by Amany Sayed

Well. Hi? I don’t really know how something like this should start.I’m starting journaling per request of my therapist. So...Yeah. She said to just start writing about your feelings but I’m not really feeling anything right now. That’s starting to happen a lot lately. Where I just feel void of all emotions. Empty. It’s not exactly a bad thing, but I wouldn’t call it good either. It’s not sadness I guess. But, seeing as I have no feelings to write about, I’ll just end right now. Um. Bye?August 8, 2019Well, I talked to a ...

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“Common Ground ” by Abigail Airuedomwinya

April 2Dear diary,Hey, this is me. Not the typical kind of awkward teen with glasses on her face. Just me.Am I getting this all wrong? I hope not. This is my first time writing and it appears I'm already going about it all wrong. Let me start again.Hey, this is me. Frances Harrold. I am twenty years old, a college student and a part-time worker for an art lover. We work at her apartment. She works, painting out of date stuff while I prepare dinner and clean the house. Last week, while cleaning her house, I foun...

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“The Diary of Sunny” by C. jay Loren

Friday, 11th January BEST. BIRTHDAY. EVER!!!I, Jonathan Clark, got a puppy! My very own puppy!I’ll call him Sunny.Mum says I should start a diary about Sunny and me.I’ll try but I don’t like writing very much.Saturday, 12th January Sunny is a very pretty kinda dog. He’s got golden fur and big brown eyes. They remind me of my favourite chocolate.He can’t really bark yet coz he’s only little. I try to teach him ...

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“Notes from Chni Wohn” by Cholmondeley Frink

March 20, 20487:14amCCP Police Station Beijing, ChinaIt has now been 16 hours since I was arrested.I have been given no food or water since I arrived.I am sitting on one of the lumpy cots in the holding cell of the Police Station, where I have been detained.Over the final 4 hours I have been interrogated, questioned, and shouted at. I have not been allowed to sleep.They have searched me twice and gone through my bag. Luckily the trunk had already been loaded on to the plane, and, bef...

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“Stars, Heart-Shaped Keys, and Dreams” by Natalie Frank

April 23, 2020 This is a first. Journaling. It's a form of therapy, they say. They say a lot of things, tell me a lot of things.They tell me to forgive him, that he was only seventeen with a promising future ahead of. They tell me that he has a little sister who is only a nine, a father in the military, and a depressed mother. They tell me that he has friends and he is a teacher’s pet, th...

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“Figure me out” by Imogen Bird

Waking up from a coma. What a cliché way to begin. Of course it isn't like movies would have you believe, that one day you will flutter your eyes open and take a few panicked breaths through your nose. A loved one tells you everything is okay and ten seconds later you pull your IV's out with vigor and topple off the gurney despite the nurse feebly trying to stop you. Wobbly-legged, like a newborn lamb, you'll take a few uneasy steps before you gather your resolve, muster strength from nowhere and burst out the hospital doors t...

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“Who Am I” by S. John

Dear Diary,I have tapped out at twenty-five. I came to this depressing realization one afternoon on a cold South Iowa day. It wasn’t snowing, but there was snow on the ground. The dogs were barking outside, and the kids were fighting over something in the living room. 

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“Found Diary” by John k Adams

Warning:            If you find this and you care about me – destroy this immediately. Do not read. Thank you in advance.I may be better or I may be worse. I am not who you think I am. If you knew me as I really am, you would not love me.Monday                              D...

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“Ain't worth a driver's license” by Harken Void

“So… I just speak into the damn thing?”Grandpa scratched his chin. He was already feeling regret, having his nephew talk him into actually trying this out. It seemed ridiculous.“Yes,” sighed the boy, nodding his head hastily. Only fifteen years old and already in such a hurry.

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“Adventures in ice cream land ” by Tyra Johnson

1 November 2000Dear Diary.Let me first introduce myself. My name is Peggy Norton. I am 10 years old. I live with my mother in Hampton a small and beautiful countryside town. I am beautiful, have long hair, I have many rotten teeth in my mouth that resembles a pig and my ears look like a Christmas elf.I attend the Hampton school. Everybody calls me Piggy because of how my mouth looks but I am not a shame because I learn to accept myself and true beauty and children at school would bully me.I have best friends na...

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“AN EXPLORER” by Norlie Rabino

Hi, there.As a teenager and because of this, I become adventurous and part of this is experienced. In this young age, where I’m curious on everything, I want to travel, to enjoy and to experienced things and to be putted here and as a souvenir, I list all the experienced at the powerful book which knows me the best. My diary, it is the thing that can describe me, the first thing that can know my true feelings. My diary, is myself.In this modernity, I could say that there are many things to explore, to discover and to en...

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“Seven Entries To Salvation” by Gip Roberts

4/3/20Well, I finally got this thing started.4/4/20Why am I even bothering with this? I'm not a writer. Journals are such a waste of time! Whoever wrote that article was full of it! Nothing whatsoever "life-changing" is going on here. The Manual is right: "Writing is a pathway to self-destruction." I must stop doing this immediately, before I become corrupted to the point of no return by selfish, unwholesome distractions!4/5/20I have failed. I'...

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“The Ink Flows Freely” by Neha Dubhashi

Report 1, 4/8/10 Dad sits in his study. His mahogany wood table is littered with black and blue pens, sticky notes, and odd bits of string here and there. He’s sucked in by the light of his new laptop. I wonder what’s so special about it. He stares at it like it holds the threads of his life. Decides his choices.Damn, he’s obsessed.Or possessed.I wouldn’t know.I’ve been watching too many sci-fi movies lately.He bought me this journal a few days ago. Said he want me to become...

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“The Corona Diary” by Sadie B

Dear Diary,So it’s the middle of a pandemic and I thought I would write about it. You probably have a lot of questions, so hold on let me explain. I started this journal because a lot’s been going on and well when you're out of school for a month you have a lot of time! We are out of school for a month because o...

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