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So I've talked before about my writing blog. And I'm going to ramble on like a mad thing under the cut about why I have it and why it's different from my journal, and the effect it's had on my journaling practice.

Well. On my keeping of an LJ/DW journal, anyway.

On the "writing blog", I write about some stuff that's really deeply personal - sometimes way more personal than the stuff I used to post under lock on LJ. Which, to my mind at least, makes a nonsense of keeping a mostly-friends-only journal, at least for me. The "writing blog" very quickly turned into a "process blog" for me, something in which I write random insights about what's going on with me. It's been really interesting as an exercise, and also because random people read it, and I love doing it.

And it's had an effect on what I do over here, on LJ/DW, and with the crossposting thing. Because my LJ, I realize now, was never really a blog, not in the way that Lucy Viret is a blog. It's a journal, a social networking tool (one of my favourites) and a way of keeping in touch with people. And that's different from a blog. And yet - DW is even more interesting to me because once again it's full of people I don't know. Or don't know well. Yet. I want to get to know you all!

It's probably the same reason I am weird about tags - this isn't really a record of anything, so I'm confused about how to tag the entries and what to do about that. I keep coming up with systems but they never quite cover all the bases!

So this journal is open now, though I may make any posts with contact details or similar access-only. I'm not sure how that's going to pan out in the future. Bear with me as I play around with concepts, huh?

Oh, also. I do have [personal profile] lucyviret over here on DW. Nothing is there, but I wanted my writing name so that I can do something with it if I want.

That is all.

Date: 2009-05-15 07:31 am (UTC)
phoenix: ink-and-watercolour drawing -- girl looking calmly over her shoulder (Default)
From: [personal profile] phoenix
Oh, I've been reading through your lucyviret blog and really relating to it. I've subscribed to it as RSS and hope you'll mention here if you ever decide to use [personal profile] lucyviret. I'd forgotten it was you in the couple of days since adding it, and when I visited the 'about' page, got a start to realise I had you added here as well. *g* I think you take a good approach to self-development and process-blogging, and it's inspiring.

Date: 2009-05-19 06:32 pm (UTC)
phoenix: Bill Kaulitz with a mischievous look on his face; text reads 'innocence' (bill kaulitz)
From: [personal profile] phoenix
Oh, I'm the last person to complain about late responses to comments! However good my intentions are, I only reply to a tiny number of them myself.

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