Tips
- Remember that this is your diary, and you can write in it how you want. This page is just ideas, you can follow them if you like, but in the end it's your choice how you want to do it.
- Keep it neat! When you look back at the diary about twenty years from now, you at least want to be able to read your own writing!
- Try not to write in it more than once a day. If something drastic happens that you must write about put 'Later' under the part that you already wrote.
- Pick a cover design that you think is nice or suits your style. For example if you are kind of an artist, just draw on the cover or if you are much of a skater guy/girl, you can stick a picture of you doing a stunt on your skateboard or a picture of skateboards. Sometimes it can be as simple as a school notebook, which can be transformed with drawings, stickers, and even pipe cleaners!
- Make it good to read When you look back you want to enjoy reading it. Try starting the entry with something catchy or exciting. Like 'Oh my Gosh!' or 'You'd never guess what!' or even 'something awful happened today.' and then end with maybe writing your feeling so far in this day or doing a face to show how you are feeling.
- Don't worry if you can't write inside it every day
- Write all of your deep thoughts. If you keep things inside of you, there's no point in keeping a diary.
- Write whatever comes to mind. Lets say you just thought of a story or song, stop, put three dots,and just write it in. Then skip a line and continue writing. You never know what could happen!
- A format you can use is to write your entry on one side of the page and on the other side put a picture of whatever you did. For example if you went to Florida with your friends you can put a picture of you and your friends there. And even if you don't have pictures you can always put a souvenir like a bag of popcorn you got on your first date. Little things like that. But you should try and find a moderately large book for this.
- You can put quotes in it if you wish, for example: "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure". Albus Dumbledore- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. You can write a quote on a page and then decorate it too. Its much more fun and this expresses your feelings.
Warnings
- If you write very personal entries, make sure no one else can read them. If you're really worried about this, get a notebook with a lock, or transfer your diary online to your computer, and put a password on it.
- Never write anything you'd hate to see when you look back at it...unless you think that it might help you recover from 'whatever you would hate to remember'.
- Keep your diary in a secret place. Be careful that it does not get in hands of any unwanted person, such as siblings, or even your parents. Try hiding it in your wardrobe, in a bag that nobody uses, or even in your pillow case.
- Keep in mind that if you are incapacitated or worse, your diary becomes a document that will have some legal status. This is not a bad thing--but remember that if you make a note to yourself like "Call the lawyer about George [and the car; his moving into the house; sending the children to Mother's), such notes may be taken to express your intentions when you no longer can do it. If you change your mind about a diary note, erase it.
- If it is found, it is perhaps all your secrets being leaked to the world. Make sure it never happens by hiding it well, not telling anybody you have a diary, and only writing in it when nobody else is around.
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