I think the term diary has been given a bad rep. Many powerful men in the past have kept diaries, most of them were not gay. It was a way to keep a record of your life. Nowadays when you think about diary it's all frilly pointless girly stuff..Though I don't write about that. I write about current events, life stuff, questions, things I know.... And then there is my weird thing with words.

Yes I have a diary. I hate writing in it because usually someone notices me writing and wants to know what I am writing about. Some people cannot take the hint that you are writing about personal things and do not wish to have them reading over your shoulders.

I write about different things. Most of it is personal. Some times it's what happened that day. It could be a poem that I've been working on. Plans or goals for the next week, month, year. Its a way to overcome fustrations I might be having with work, social life, clubs, people, etc.

Yes, but only when they have asked me to. Sometime my friends/students like another input on something that happend to them or someone else they care about.

Yes. This way I don't feel so bad using so much space to write my stories, ideas, bloobs that I hope to use within a story, etc.

Frienship journals are always fun. Until you have a spat with one of your friends, then the whole idea can be ruined due to the fact that the two friends then use it to say mean things about one another. Or, there are those times when you leave it in the wrong place or loose it and someone else finds it. Then if you've written anything personal or mean about someone else it become public knowledge. That is never good.

I have about fifteen diaries that I started, but never kept up with. I'd like to continually write in one because I think it would be cool to keep it and look back on it twenty years later. I'm just either too lazy to write in it every day, or I just plain forget to write in it, so most of them just kind of...died. I would mostly write about things that are typically found in a diary. Things that happened during my day that were important or interesting enough to mention. Things that I'd like to remember when I look back on it. Or rants, just to get something off my chest and help me feel better.

I do have a journal that I keep dreams written in though. I can actually keep up with that one. I save all my short stories and such on the computer, so there's really no need for a journal there.

I have read a friend's diary once, but don't worry, she told me I could. It was an old one of hers from when she was a little kid so there were no horrible secrets she didn't want to get out. xD

When I was younger I kept a diary, but gave up on it for reasons I can't really remember. I really should get back into it again, it was quite fun writing it. It certainly came in handy at the time, since that was when I was an emotional and angst-ridden teenager, and a diary was a good way to safely get some stuff off my chest. It did get a bit repetitive, mind - all boredom, frustration, unrequited love and fanboy excitement.

1. Do you have a diary? Or have you ever had a Diary?
No, I don't/ I treid once but I found myself not writing in it at all.

2. If so, what do you write in it? No need to go into detail.
Well every now and then I pull out a piece of paper and rant, at best.

3. Have you ever read anyone elses diary? (examples: Friends, family, famous people, etc. Basically non-fiction, not those fake fiction ones people write about the lives of people long dead.)
Yes. I'm a little thief.

4. Do you keep in journals that you write stories or something else in?
Yes. I love writing, but I do fiction.

5. Anything else that might go with this topic? (examples: A journal which you write to your friends in, they write back...like letters I guess..)
Well, notes and emails...random pieces of paper sporadically...not much, though.

Wait till you're really old, then you might wish that you had. Lol.

I keep a journal thing. I like it just because I don't have to be on the computer to type stuff--when I'm on the computer I tend to get sucked into other things besides writing. ^^; Besides, if I type on the computer in a journal format, it's usually in livejournal, which other people see. Sometimes I don't need people to read all my personal crap but still want to have it written down. ...and yeah, I could just make it private or type in word, but I feel kinda ridiculous doing that. Some one could find it on my computer much more easily than in a book stowed away somewhere. And part of it is just the act of actually writing. It just can't be replaced.

I also have another notebook that I keep for story drabbling and slightly lighter, less serious stuff. Then there's also a sketchbook for drawing, but I don't think that really counts as a journal. ^^;

I have kept a few diaries myself.
They mostly had to do with how my days went and of course embarrassing things that happened to me.
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I used to have a diary... I currently only write down things when something really bothers me, but back in middle school, there was a time I'd be writing in it every spare chance I had.
I just wrote out how I felt, what was happening, who I was mad at, a lot of personal stuff - that last part is the reason I don't keep one anymore. My sister got ahold of one of them, and now I just pretend she imagined the whole thing. It's been a few years, anyways.

I've really only read my sister's diary. The one she wrote in 2nd grade. And all I found out was that she liked Trevor, but they already had a playground wedding, so it wasn't anything new.

Now the only thing I really do is post on my LJ, if that counts as a type of journal. But majority of that is just "Hey, I can go to ____" or "Gee, this band is annoying". Sometimes I'll talk about how I feel or crushes or stuff like that, but not often. A good deal of the time, I type up things I never post. I just type it to get it out of my system, and then delete it all.

I had a diary once, I used it for like a month. Then a few years later I turned to blogging. :wink:

I kept a diary when I was younger. I used it to vent and to get all my frustrations out of my head and on to paper. It was a great way to de-stress. Then I discovered that my sister and my parents had been reading it, so I burnt it and never wrote one again since.
I tried the online ones live journal and dead journal, but looking at others they all seemed so angsty, I kept looking at mine and looking at others and thinking "What am I worried about, my life's easy compared to some" and I ended up feeling like I wasn't angsty enough to be there o_0
So now I just don't bother. If my heads full of stuff I can't deal with. I type it all out and then delete it all. Makes me feel like I've somehow dealt with a problem when I can get it out of my head and then watch it being deleted on the monitor. Of course I still have to deal with it properly, but at least if it's been taken out of my head and I've been able to look at it slightly more objectively than when it's mangled up with all my other thoughts... it sometimes gives me a new idea on how to deal with it.

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When I was little I always tried to start diaries, but never kept up with them. When I was about 13 I started writing in one every day. I stopped when I was 17 because my brother found one of them and read it. He wasn't mean about it, which was surprising, and he was honest enough to tell me.

I was still extremely embarrassed though(I'd written everything that was going on in my life and held back nothing)and I tried to keep writing, but couldn't bring myself to. Make sure you hide yours well.

I'd like to read some of my friends journals because I'm a really nosy person, but I wouldn't.

I do stories from time to time too, but I have problems with the endings too. They're always crappy. -_-;

I can write the beginning of stories, and the endings..Just not the middle.