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journals can be interesting--they can help with any things--in my case, keeping one has here helped me get around a long block.
if i have a problems with journals, it is that the usual ways of keeping them bore me...so i figure out other things to do with it.
i use the journal here to work out formal issues--usually by trying to perform them one way or another---sometimes these issues are connected to other projects, but i dont talk about them here in the main.
what is stange is that what i might do in the journal never actually makes it into the other projects. this was not the plan, but it is how things have worked out.
i keep a paper one intermittently--i am not really interested in a diary, so i use it mostly to experiment with words, including group writing.
as for downsides: my handwriting is allegedly totally illegible (i battle these false claims daily to no avail) i dont worry much about privacy violations
journals can substitute for other forms of writing, which can be a problem if you have to do other forms of writing.
they can be embarrasing later--years later, you can read stuff you wrote during a difficult period and conclude that you were wholly insane during that period.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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