Saturday, July 2, 2016

My Journals!!!

Anyone who knows me will tell you that journals are a very large part of my life. I have autism, which makes it hard for me to express myself verbally, process my feelings and senses, and process events in certain orders. Journals are Very useful in doing all those things, as well as being fun and a good writing/ art exercise. In the past year I've kept a poetry journal ( which was actually a letter to someone) , a bullet journal, and a sketch-a-day journal. I am currently keeping a letter journal, a doodle a day journal, a college planning journal, this blog for my writing, and I plan on starting a new bullet journal on the first of august. Here are some descriptions of the journals I've completed:


  1. The Letter Journal- This is pretty much just a letter. I wrote many poems and drew some sketches  over the course of a really, really intense crush and I  bound the pages  together by hand and gave the completed journal to the girl I wrote it for ( I'm currently working on  another one in a spiral  addressed to a friend that lives far away so I don't get to talk to them every day and tell them everything I'd like to tell them) 
  2. Bullet Journal- I used a templated bullet journal to chart my anxiety/ stress for the second part of last school year ( It really helped last year so I'm planning on starting a new bullet journal before next school year starts). 
  3. a sketch a day journal- 365 paged sketchbook that I worked on for awhile ( I think it finishes in February but I didn't keep up with it very well so I'm not going to try to finish it at this point). Pretty much what that was was sketches inspired by book quotes or things that happened ( there are like 3 pages from a concert I went to with a friend and so much fanart for that band after that) 
Beyond that, I'll try to update about my journaling endeavors. I'm coming up with a layout for my bullet journal. I'm thinking of giving it a kind of hipstery vibe and maybe including some stuff from my college planning journal in it. The real question, though, is whether or not to hand bind it. I'll continue stewing up ideas for Wren as well. When I've fully developed enough of her to  write solidly I'll upload the sketches and work on her character chart.

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