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So this is what I go for:

Non sequitirs, imagery, adjectives, anything that makes me jump off on my own tangent and write. Simple design that doesn't overwhelm the page but looks tight. (These are visual things, these online journals we are keeping.)

This is what I don't go for:

Journals that strive to be daily daily daily, regardless of the fact that 99% of human daily existence doesn't leave a strong impression on anyone.

I also tend to be incredibly callous to the tragedies of others. Not very compassionate, but there you go.

love just gave me a kiss then latched me down with a leather strap
dis in fect ed

"starting today i set the fairies free. starting today i untape their wings ..."

I really go for Sarah's site.

Opens up with an Emily Dickinson quote, "I have a horror of death; the dead are so soon forgotten. But when I die, they'll have to remember me."

At first I think oh no, I'm not interested in reading about the existential dilemmas of another teenage girl. But then I think, wait, this isn't so melancholy of a statement. This isn't "I'm a nobody, who are you?" This is they'll have to remember me.

If the rest of her life progresses similarly to her journal's immediate effect on me, she'll be remembered in a beautifully subtle way.

Sporadis, and not too very many entries (yet?) but those that are up are about as non-linear as you can get. Like a Jeanette Winterson novel where you read and read and 10 pages later you realize your eyes have been scanning the page and making sense of words but your imagination has bailed out long ago and is telling its own story. It's all about referentiality, capturing the feeling and "handing it over bodily."

A more than fair dose of exhaustion and tragedy, but then she wants to untape fairy wings (how incredibly immediate that picture is). It's so believable.

I wish I could still post journal entries like this, without worrying about keeping the narrative going.

Like keywords sketched out to be filled in maybe later, phrases scribbled in the margins of notebook paper just because that's where they landed.

Part of a the "dis in fect ed" website, a joint effort with a guy named Jimmy, featuring prose and poetry by one or both, as well as a worthwhile linkdiary.

Original "ReEntry" concept by Gus () and other DIARY-L participants.