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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Do You Keep a Journal?
By: CharleeVale
Do you keep a journal?
I don't mean the normal writer's journal, full of notes and ideas and bits of dialogue. I mean a 'dead diary', I did this, I did that journal. I've never been able to. Maybe because spending time writing that doesn't benefit one of my WIPs seems like a waste of time....
But I'm wondering if there are any of you that do, and how you find the time/motivation?
107 comments:
- Allan Douglas said...
No, I don't. I agree that spending time doing this is non-productive... but looking back on it would probably be too scary.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:05 AM
- James Scott Bell said...
dead diary?
Stacking the deck, eh?
I use a novel journal, an idea I got from Sue Grafton. A daily "letter" to myself about the book. Sort of a diary in that it talks first to myself, then the story.
But not a straight diary. That does take away from the fiction.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:06 AM
- Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem M.ED. said...
I have kept journals for many years and they have formed the backbone of my self help travel memoirs. I don't do it daily but keep notes on the highlights especially when travelling.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:06 AM
- Zoe Faulder said...
I try - though I fail most of the time...
It's not really for writing purposes as the contents generally make me cringe but it's a great way of clearing all the muck out of your head.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:07 AM
- abc said...
I was a serious journal girl in all my growing up years (and unfortunately my dad burned them all when getting rid of stuff--he thought he had my permission. as if), but since I've been a "grown up" I've never felt the need. Of course I blog. That's kind of like journaling. That's enough for me. And it is more fun. I don't want to talk to myself too much, really. I see the benefit, but I'd rather talk to others.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:08 AM
- Rob said...
I used to obsessively keep a journal in high school and college - the only way I could organize my thoughts honestly - but fell out of it once I started feeling happier and wanting to experience and enjoy life instead of writing about it. I try to push myself to write every few months but I have so many other hobbies, interests, and responsibilities that get in the way. Then there's the indecisiveness. I currently have a 6"x9" unlined spiral notebook and a 3"x4" travel notebook that I'm concurrently updating. It confuses the hell out of me as to which one to use.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:09 AM
I blog daily, which I consider my online journal. This is what blogging was intended to be when it first started...an online journal...and I try not to deviate and turn it into social networking.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:09 AM
- SM Blooding said...
I used to. It was really neat the other day to pull it out and read it. I was like, "Hey! I totally FORGOT that! Wow!"
Now, I have Twitter, and a blog...*shrug*...and I type faster. But it was so much fun to go back and read what I had written.
I think I might pick it up again. Mostly, it was me chatting and arguing with myself about what I should be concentrating on...though, no always.
And arguments with yourself should not be posted on your blog. Well, unless they're wickedly entertaining. *snort*
- April 27, 2011 at 10:09 AM
what is a dead diary?
- April 27, 2011 at 10:13 AM
- Jenny Torres Sanchez said...
I did...when I was sixteen, so you can only imagine. I just came across that journal and wow...melodramatic, sickening, angsty, in short--terrible!
I don't now for the same reasons you don't. Plus, I don't wanna be that seventy year old who finds it someday and thinks, what a putz I was!
- April 27, 2011 at 10:14 AM
- Kathleen@so much to say said...
Blog=journal. I used to do both, but not anymore. What's missing is the not-for-public-consumption stuff...but, like abc, it's enough for me.
If you blog about writing, this doesn't work, but my (admittedly limited) readership doesn't care to read about writing; they just want to see the "journal" stuff. I figure I'm writing essay material. And building a readerhsip.
But I do admit that on top of NF projects, it does take up time that cannot, then, be used to work on fiction.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:16 AM
- Melody said...
I've kept a journal fairly religiously since January 2009. It being a (oft-made) New Years Resolution, of course, and one I actually kept. Part of my motive was to preserve what was left of my teens, in order to have more fodder for YA writing, but it's grown to become a great way for me to get my thoughts out and clear my head. :)
- April 27, 2011 at 10:18 AM
- Just Another Day in Paradise said...
You bet! It's my blog. I'm not sure it's a "dead diary" but there is a lot of "did this, did that, should have done this, wish I hadn't said that to them" and so on. The great part about it is that it let's me vent. Let's me get on that soap box and go for it. When people comment in the negative, I remind them that this is my Journal and I'm writing for myself, so if they feel offended, please tune out for that day.
A couple of other benefits are 1. I write something every day and 2. many of my vents turn into great story ideas and finally 3.I started this blog when we moved to the islands and it lets me stay in touch with friends and family. I guess more to the poin, they can stay in touch with me and see what the current rant is all about.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:18 AM
- Ted Fox said...
I got a really cool notebook this past Christmas that was practically begging for me to journal in it. I was writing something in it every few days in January. And then ...
It still looks awesome on my nightstand, though--makes me seem pseudo-intellectual.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- Matthew MacNish said...
Lord no, my life isn't interesting enough for that sort of thing.
I do, however, keep a web log.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- Sarah said...
I do, and have regularly since middle school. I figure any writing is good practice. It's a way of organizing my thoughts as well as remembering things that happened once before. Since I take experiences from life (people I've met, silly moments at the store, etc.) and work them into my fiction, it's good for me to practice putting those to paper.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:22 AM
- Barbara Kloss said...
I used to. Until it all started turning into ideas for WIPs. There went all self-reflection...
- April 27, 2011 at 10:22 AM
- Libby said...
I did obsessively when I was younger. Now, I'm just not that concerned. I live life now more than reflect on it, I would say it was reversed when I was younger.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:23 AM
- Kemberlee said...
Isn't that called Twitter?
- April 27, 2011 at 10:23 AM
- Mr. D said...
I agree with some of the prior comments. Nowadays, it's all about the daily blog. Journals are going the way of the brick and mortar book stores.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:24 AM
- Jenny Maloney said...
I just recently finished reading Virginia Woolf's A Writer's Diary. Apparently it's 26 volumes long and I got the abridged version (whew!). But the way she kept it was inspiring to me.
Basically, she didn't write in it every day. She kept notes on life, sketches for characters and scenes, and whatever else came into her head. If she was working on a book, there's big ol' blank dates in her diary because, well, she's working somewhere else.
In the past, I've found that I apologized to my 'diary' if I stayed away too long and then felt guilty if I didn't write in it.
But with Woolf's model in mind, I write about whatever--blog ideas, story ideas, brain dumps. I don't date the pages. I don't apologize for not writing in it. (It's a book, it'll get over it.) I come back to it when I come back to it and it's always there when I need it.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:25 AM
- Andrea said...
I tried many times growing up to keep a journal, but they never seemed to last. Now, I feel with so little time to write in the craziness that is my life as it is that I simply don't have the time.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:26 AM
- mshatch said...
yes - sort of. my 'blog' file on my computer is often a journal as some of the content never makes it to my actual blog due to being either too personal, inappropriate, or just too blah.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:27 AM
- KrisUnderwood said...
I've been keeping a journal for years, since I was 16, probably...in the middle of my 61st now. I use it more for when I need to work things out personally. I used to work out some of my poetry in my journal awhile back, not so much now-prefer working that out on the computer. Journaling also keeps my handwriting legible :)
- April 27, 2011 at 10:27 AM
- magpiewrites said...
I've tried to keep a journal/diary since I turned 13 and got a diary for my birthday. It was so awesome, had a picture of a rollerskate on it and a lock with attached dinky silver key. I wrote in it maybe every three months before giving up. In the fifteen or so years since I've bought blank journals, filled up the first few pages, then abandoned them.
I'm a wannabe diarist - in love with the idea of it, but can't do it. Funnily enough, I have no problem blogging nearly every day. I guess that's become my 'diary'.
I don't think I'd have much luck with a novel journal, but would love to hear more about people's experiences with it. How do you use it for your novel later? How is this different from just 'notes', or is it the same thing, but fancy?
- April 27, 2011 at 10:29 AM
- Jay said...
I bought an old, small notebook off of ebay so I could write down random things. I end up writing in it twice a month whenever I have an interesting bike ride to my bus stop.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:31 AM
- Carrie Filetti said...
I was very faithful in journal writing when I was a child and while at college. I think it was my first steps in becoming an writer. Sadly, I'm so busy with family and creating stories that journaling has taken the back burner. It's a shame. I wish I would have recorded my first feeling when I got my agent, etc.
I need to do better. Journals are treasures to posterity.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:31 AM
- dianehenders said...
Nope. I've never been motivated to keep that kind of record. Looking back just isn't my style.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:35 AM
- K. C. Blake said...
Who has time to write in a diary? lol Seriously, between working on books, doing my blog, keeping up with Facebook, Twitter, etc. I barely have time to work and sleep.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:42 AM
- Loree Huebner said...
I did at one time in my life but not anymore. I can't even look at it now.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:42 AM
- Sessha Batto said...
I USED to . . . it's how I learned the valuable lesson 'never write ANYTHING down that you don't want the world to know' . . . now I channel it all into my books ;)
- April 27, 2011 at 10:43 AM
- Stephanie McGee said...
I journal. Not as much as I used to, but I do. Generally if there's something I want to remember for whatever reason, an event, an emotion, whatever, I journal. I date the entries. And generally I write in my journal before I go to bed. I don't write in it every day. My journals have evolved and matured as I've grown older. But without journals, our photos and the miscellania that survive us mean nothing to our posterity. OUr journals show our grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and beyond, the sort of person we were. Our journals can give our descendants a role model to emulate (or avoid) when they're navigating the pitfalls of their own lives.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:49 AM
I keep a LiveJournal because it's just something I've had for years. It's a place to keep the OMGs and Holy Craps when I'm not at a place I can write them down (ie. work). It's also a place to keep in touch with the few friends I have left there, and a place to just let loose with that one side of myself I don't let anyone else see.
It's not detrimental to be human, as well as a writer. Because at the end of the day, when you close that book, there's someone on the other side of the cover. You.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:50 AM
- Nick Lewandowski said...
I did this once, for about a week, and only because I was living in extraordinary circumstances - the recent revolution in Egypt.
I actually recorded entries on a mini-recorder as I went from place to place, so I have about an hour and forty-five minutes or so of incredible entries (at protests, F-16s soaring overhead, et cetera).
Some day I mean to sit down and transcribe them.
I imagine I might keep some kind of journal in the future if travelling like Marilyn said - provided I can ever afford it ;).
The idea of chronicling my daily life just doesn't appeal to me however.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:52 AM
- Teralyn Rose Pilgrim said...
I do it for family history - I want to leave a part of me behind - and so I don't lose my memories. I love reading over my old journals.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:53 AM
- Debbie said...
I do write my morning pages every day. At least I try to. And they tend to be more journally than my writing notebooks.
I've found that I don't write anything else on the days I don't write morning pages. That doesn't mean that I do write other things when morning pages are produced.
But why chance it?
- April 27, 2011 at 10:55 AM
- Mieke Zamora-Mackay said...
I do. I don't write in it everyday, but it serves as a receptacle of experiences that I may, or may not, want to remember.
An experience, whether good or bad, mundane or special, is a resource to me as a writer. I can't think of simply trashing it because it's not "productive" writing.
I'll never know years from now, what seed I might find in it for a story.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:58 AM
I did all through high school (fairly strictly) and through college (much less strictly), because I have an awful memory and I wanted my future-self to remember what it was like going through those formative years.
Now that I'm getting ready to go to grad school/working, though, I write in it less. I use it as a more of a way to organize my thoughts rather than as a "this is what I did today" type thing, and I try to write in it three times a week- just so I have a half hour to myself away from the TV and computer. If I go traveling I definitely keep a strict journal, sometimes with little sketches of things or fragments of tickets or brochures, etc.
- April 27, 2011 at 11:03 AM
- Christa said...
It's interesting that people started to point out the benefit to our children and grandchildren. I believe that wholeheartedly, and even before the idea came up I was going to mention:
I keep a journal specifically for my son. When I found out I was pregnant, I wrote about how my husband and I met, our wedding, and finding out we were having our son. Then I kept it up. Pregnancy, labor and delivery, learning the ropes. Nowadays I write in it every few weeks, to let him know what our life is like now that he's in it. I wish I had something like that from my infancy. And it's a win-win because hey, I'm writing, right?
I also keep an 'introspection' journal where I keep track of prayers and think through life's dilemmas.
As for a dead diary: Not since I was a hopelessly self-absorbed, boy-crazy and downright boring teenager. :D
- April 27, 2011 at 11:08 AM
- Ishta Mercurio said...
I tried that once when I was nine, and then after a few days I looked at it and thought, "This is boring."
I do keep a dream journal, though. My dreams are almost never boring.
- April 27, 2011 at 11:14 AM
- Belinda Kroll, Quirky Historical Fiction said...
I have had a LiveJournal for ten years. I don't blog there as often as I did when I was a teenager, and EVERYTHING WAS AGAINST ME HOMG, but whenever I'm troubled I turn to that journal and bleed my thoughts and emotions and confusion onto the keyboard. It's very therapeutic, and if it's a long enough post, I count it toward my weekly writing word count. Making sense of one's emotions in a prose format is a good exercise for making the emotions of one's characters tangible and logical.
- April 27, 2011 at 11:15 AM
- WriterGirl said...
I've never heard the phrase "dead diary". I used to keep a journal until I was about 21. Then when I'd grown out of youthful angst I just didn't need it any more. Though reading the journals of Sylvia Plath always give me the urge to write deep and meaningful journal entries, I'm afraid mine were always more of the "I love that boy- does he notice me" variety.
- April 27, 2011 at 11:19 AM
- Julia said...
I have journal to keep me from thinking that I need to write an autobiography. Whenever something "cool" happens to me, I no longer think "Oh, time to write and publish an autobiography." Now I think "Ugh, now I have to dig out that journal."
It works.
- April 27, 2011 at 11:36 AM
- Iliadfan said...
I've kept a diary since my early teens (except when I was in college - also the only time in my life I all but stopped reading and writing fiction). It's where I can think through troubling experiences, express fears about political turmoil or as-yet unfulfilled dreams or daily angst or even gush about brilliant books I've read, without involving other people who might be bored or offended by my opinions. :)
It has no impact on my other writing - we make time for the things that are important to us.
- April 27, 2011 at 11:41 AM
- Taryn Tyler said...
I keep my writing notes "dear diary" stuff in the same journal. It is not in any way organized and allows me to scribble down whatever I'm thinking about in any way I like whenever I want. --though the "dear diary" stuff is a bit outnumbered and not frequently updated (see disorganized statement above).
- April 27, 2011 at 11:51 AM
- Erik said...
Like others, I blog. Keeping a diary is much more personal and although I've never had one, I may regret that decision when I'm famous and I need material for my memoir. Or I could just make it up. That seems to be the cool thing to do.
- April 27, 2011 at 11:56 AM
- Brandy Heineman said...
I've kept diaries and journals, off and on, for most of my life. I started my first online journal in college as a handy procrastination tool. It tallies up to an embarrassing 243,000 words about me. So yes, I have to say that most of that was probably a waste of time.
- April 27, 2011 at 11:58 AM
- D.G. Hudson said...
Some of the great writers kept journals which were so detailed that they were published after their death.
Journals do take time, but it pays to determine what you want it for in the first place. Is it to document an important time in your life -- such as a turning point? Or is it a sounding board to get things off your chest? Only highlight what's important and learn to step back & observe.
Nothing written is non-productive if it improves your writing (i.e., your selection of the right word, your expressions of emotion, refining of your thoughts, etc.)
Don't think in Dear Diary terms, think of it as documenting parts of your life.
I posted about that on one of my blogs: http://dghudson.blogspot.com/2011/02/its-your-life-prove-it.html
It's a good way to sort your thoughts, if nothing else.
Motivation is determined by why you're keeping the journal (for sanity, to note details about an important event, to glean from for a memoir).
I've heard that trying something for 20 days can make it into a habit, so why not try keeping one for 20 days to decide if it will work for you?
- April 27, 2011 at 12:06 PM
- Jayme Stryker said...
I used to keep a journal, but I stopped. I always hated going back and reading a detailed account of menial events and tasks.
On the other side of the coin, I find writer's journals to be very interesting when they're not mine. I've read almost all the volumes of L.M. Montgomery's journals, but she readily admits that she used them because she felt she could talk to no one else. Apparently, it's unfortunate for my life as a diarist that I have people to talk to...
- April 27, 2011 at 12:26 PM
- Stephanie said...
I keep several diaries/journals and all have a specific purpose.
I have kept a diary since I was about 8 and found, many times, spilling my guts to a blank page when there was no one else to talk to helped...a lot! Especially during those teen years. As I got older, the purpose changed and I didn't keep it updated as often as I did when I was 15. Now it's more of an autobiography of my life with my thoughts and feelings about my life and chronicling the things we do as a family. Maybe someday my kids and grand kids will be interested in reading about my life. I think it would be really cool to read a journal kept by my grandma in the 30's and 40's.
I keep journals about my kids too..recording all the little day to day things...firsts, cute things, things I love about them. Someday I'll give it to them to read.
I think venting to a journal is completely therapeutic. As mature responsible adults, it's not okay to just blow up at someone when we're angry, even if they deserve it. I find it far more productive to vent those frustrations out to a blank page...no judgment, no filter...word vomit that makes me feel better.
- April 27, 2011 at 12:27 PM
- Deb said...
Baby books, blogs, facebook status updates. Done right, those are all chronicles of the hilarity and poignancy found in the mundane.
- April 27, 2011 at 12:36 PM
- The Pen and Ink Blog said...
Morning pages for 16 years. I did The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron and the morning pages that are a part of the course increased my productivity by 50%
- April 27, 2011 at 12:48 PM
- Charli Armstrong said...
I keep an art journal...
- April 27, 2011 at 1:01 PM
- Kathleen @ Kath Ink said...
Yes, I keep a journal. I have since the 5th grade. I have never kept it daily. I have found it easiest to put all kinds of thoughts in the same place -- cute anecdotes of my children; things I need to process; random attempts at poetry or descriptive writing; boring we did this & that; reflections from a trip. I need to put it all in one place. I tend to write less if I have to categorize before I write.
The journals become reference points for me to find out history for my children's sake or what I was thinking during a pariticular season or capturing the emotions of an event that I can use in my writing.
If it is something I know I don't want anyone else to read -- I write it on an unattached piece of paper and destroy it immediately. This helps me to sort it out privately.
I do find that I write less in my journal now that I am blogging. But, I think, I will always keep a pen & ink journal. Not because I have to or because I think I should but simply because I like to.
- April 27, 2011 at 1:12 PM
- K. Tuccelli said...
I think it's important to keep a journal, not only to chronicle events that are important to you, but also to draw inspiration from when you're stuck. I can't tell you how many times I've gone back in my journal and read something that inspired a story, a bit of dialogue, or a scene.
Having a journal helps me remember things when my memory becomes foggy. I tend to remember almost everything I write or type, word-for-word. It's also fun to see how much you've grown, not just in life, but also in your writing style.
I used to write very faithfully, but find that I don't make as much time for journal-writing anymore. I don't beat myself up over it. If I need my journal, it's there.
- April 27, 2011 at 1:16 PM
- Laura Maylene said...
I have since I was 8 years old. (Humiliating evidence here.) I have always, always felt this compulsive need to chronicle my life. I'm already glad (if embarrassed) that I have such comprehensive records of my childhood and adolescence.
I still keep a journal today, but I write it in much less frequently. Months might pass before I pick it up. Other times, I feel driven to write in it regularly. As nerdy as it is, journaling is very much a part of who I am.
- April 27, 2011 at 1:54 PM
- djmorel.com said...
I've been keeping a journal for almost 16 years. It ebbs and flows, some years comes in at brick-sized book length and other years is barely short story length. I love going back and reading what I was struggling with a year ago, two years ago, ten years ago. It helps to recognize patterns and work through obstacles.
As for the time, it's never been an issue. I can jot down a journal entry in 10 minutes. It's just pure stream of conscious, get it out. It also helps clear the pipes, get the right muscles moving before I move over to working on my WIP.
- April 27, 2011 at 1:57 PM
- Elisabeth said...
In my early teens my journal was a hit-or-miss affair, an entry every few weeks or months, usually when I needed to vent about something. I cringe when re-reading a lot of those entries. :) Last fall I started keeping a journal regularly for the first time and I've actually kept it up. It tends to be mostly about what I'm writing and reading at the moment, but I do muse about everyday things too. I find journaling to be helpful for spells of writer's block - when you feel you have to write something but are stuck so far as plot.
- April 27, 2011 at 1:59 PM
- Rebecca Stroud said...
I kept mini-journals for over twenty years. Then, after my mom died from Lou Gehrig's disease, I flipped back through them and found more depressing/distressing stuff than good...tore them up, tossed them in the garbage, and that was the end of that.
- April 27, 2011 at 2:13 PM
- Britany Clarke said...
I always thought keeping a personal journal would get in the way of my writing and was a waste of time. But then I got a journal and realized that it actually helped my writing. I'm not a dedicated journal writer and sometimes I don't write in it for weeks. I mostly use it when my thoughts are screaming so loud that I can't hear my characters speak.
It's like once in a while I need to write about myself and my life instead of my characters.
- April 27, 2011 at 2:29 PM
- Devena said...
I kept one faithfully for many years growing up... and then kind of felt like I outgrew it... moved houses recently, and came across my diary and... wow, it was an eye-opener... I was neither as brilliant nor as dumb as I remember being:) What I do feel is that writing from an early age about everyday life and inner thoughts helped to stimulate my writing abilities... I don't know if I'd have ended up wanting to write so much if I hadn't had that kind of every day 'touching base' with the written word. Though I no longer keep a diary, as many have said, blogging kind of makes up for it, and well, as you said, Nathan, I try to keep as much time available for writing my stories as I can...
But I still miss putting down my everyday thoughts and little events... and I wonder if I'll regret NOT keeping a diary when I want to remember my world as it is now, in the future:)
- April 27, 2011 at 2:34 PM
- Devena said...
p.s. oops, not Nathan, it seems, but CharleeVale. sorry:)
- April 27, 2011 at 2:37 PM
- Raejean said...
I do keep a journal, and I encourage my children to keep one. I record at least five things daily for which I am grateful. It helps me to focus on the good in the world, and it's a therapeutic way to work out problems and feelings. It's interesting that how I feel about past experiences can change so much from then to now.
- April 27, 2011 at 2:42 PM
- Bob Norwicke said...
I keep one, inspired by Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way. I have done it on and off for about 15 years; right now it is 'on.' It only takes about 20 minutes a day, and instead of stealing time from a work in process, I find that my journal is a great place to solve problems. It is like having a life coach/analyst that I can visit whenever I wish. I also have a problem with discipline, so the journal helps there as well. And the neat thing is, even if I don't feel like making an entry, I put my pen to the page and 20 minutes later I am always always always glad I did.
- April 27, 2011 at 2:59 PM
- Ellen Keim said...
I'm obsessive about keeping a journal. I write on the average about a page a day. When my parents died, I was haunted by the fact that there was so much about them I didn't know--and never would. My children will have "me" on paper. (I realize they may not care, but I feel compelled to chronicle my life anyway, just in case.)
- April 27, 2011 at 3:04 PM
- jesse said...
I kept one when I was younger. The entries were not regular, but I always tried to start them with Dear Mr. Crenshaw.
That always made me laugh.
- April 27, 2011 at 3:09 PM
- Serenity Bohon said...
Yep. I journaled after eating lunch today, right before I read this post. I basically write about what I want, how hard it is to wait, and WHY I want what I want - the good, noble reasons and the selfish, horrid ones. The motivation partly comes from hoping if I write it out in a journal it won't get vomited on others. Plus, writing it down helps me examine whether my daily time and energy is being spent on the things I'm most passionate about - the things I care enough about to need to journal them. That's the motivation. The time is easy. It doesn't take as long as watching a sitcom and not much longer than reading an article. Plus, I don't feel any pressure to do it every day.
- April 27, 2011 at 3:22 PM
- Neurotic Workaholic said...
I do keep a journal, because it's the one place where I can vent as much as I want. In a way it helps me to release some of my daily frustrations by writing about them. The thing is that even though I'm usually just recording my dailies (or ranting about them) in my journal, occasionally I've found that I can go back later and find ideas for blog posts and stories.
- April 27, 2011 at 3:28 PM
I keep both kinds of journals. In both cases they are simply ways of remembering things that I want to remember. Life experiences or story ideas, either way I can review the entries later. Sometimes life experiences give me new ideas for my novels. Neither journal is appropriate for using as a blog.
- April 27, 2011 at 3:42 PM
- February Grace said...
I did- for years. I stopped when I knew it wasn't safe to risk anyone finding my feelings on paper and using them against me (bad marriage #1...)
Now I find that letters written to friends, faithfully logged in Gmail, serve the same purpose. I can look back years and see what was going on and how I felt about it by what I told a few trusted people.
Maybe some day I'll keep one again. But for now, I just have too much to write and too little eyesight- I'd rather share what's going on in my head in those precious letters. Besides, to those, I get replies. I rarely if ever got helpful feedback from myself on my diary entries :~) though I definitely understand the reasons people keep them.
A word of advice though- if you keep them, keep them locked up.
- April 27, 2011 at 3:43 PM
I've kept a journal obsessively since first-grade. No joke--I have several boxes full of them in my closet.
Personally, keeping a diary is a good way for me to wind down the the day and relieve some stress. And I love looking back at the past and having some record of the day.
- April 27, 2011 at 4:21 PM
- Rachel said...
I write in my journal nearly every night just before bed. It's been part of my bedtime routine for over a decade now, and I find that it adds to my other writing rather than detracting from it.
I use it for many different purposes: recording my daily life, processing when I need to process, recording interesting dreams, and also recording and developing new story ideas (not fully developing them. The journal is just where the first seeds get planted. If the same idea keeps popping up, it's time to harvest what's there and move it to another notebook.)
I find that all of these bleed into each other, so that a mundane experience or a snatch of a half-remembered dream might lead to a story idea.
I've also found that having a record of my daily life has been useful to me in many different ways. I can see how I've grown and changed. (It was almost painful to read how stressed out I was my first year teaching.) I can double-check when I met someone, or where, or other details that get forgotten.
It's also been great to have a detailed record of my personal experiences and responses when writing my novels. I can see how I felt, for example, at the beginning, middle and end of a relationship, rather than looking at the entire thing through the lens of, "this is now over and thank goodness." It makes it easier to write more realistic responses and reactions for my characters.
So no, I don't find it to be a waste of writing time to keep a daily journal. For me, it seems to be the opposite.
- April 27, 2011 at 5:37 PM
yes i kip a journal cuz i hv a hard tym expressn mixlf verbally 2 otha pple tht i find it easy 2 expres mixlf clearly n mi journal nd otha paperz.
- April 27, 2011 at 5:47 PM
- Hannah Jenny said...
Yes . . . but not very consistently. I guess I usually write in it a few times a month. I like writing in it and I find it helpful in sorting through my own thoughts/feelings. I have been keeping them since I was about nine and have filled I'm not sure how many notebooks, but most times I am not writing *every* day
- April 27, 2011 at 6:01 PM
- Ray Anderson said...
Yes. It's short, and I do it the very first thing in the morning. It anchors my day.
- April 27, 2011 at 6:13 PM
- J.C. Martin said...
I don't keep a journal now, but I did growing up. I think the (near) daily practice did help hone my writing skills a little. I remember stumbling on my old diary from high school and thinking the YA voice was great! Now if only I can recreate it as a near-30-year-old...
- April 27, 2011 at 6:16 PM
- Suzanne said...
You bet I do and it's where I found my rawest, realest voice. The journals I've kept are so productive they are being turned into a half dozen books titled *Bare Naked at The Reality Dance*. Journal One will be out this summer.
- April 27, 2011 at 6:21 PM
- Margaret Reyes Dempsey said...
Funny you should ask this question. I just blogged about this topic and got really in-depth comments. I don't think keeping a journal is non-productive. Sometimes it's therapeutic, and what writer doesn't need a bit of therapy, right? ;-)
Here's the link if you're interested in reading:
- April 27, 2011 at 6:22 PM
- Margaret Reyes Dempsey said...
Oops, looks like my link was truncated. Just click on my name to get to the post.
- April 27, 2011 at 6:24 PM
- Kristin Laughtin said...
Not since I was 10 and somebody found it and read the dang thing. I decided my thoughts were safer in my head after that, although I do have a few diary-like files buried in my computer from times when I needed the space to vent or explore a thought.
- April 27, 2011 at 6:25 PM
- Julie Achterhoff said...
I've kept one on and off for many years. The main kind I like is dream journals. You see, I have some pretty unusual dreams and nightmares that are sometimes provocative enough to make me want to write a whole book about. In fact, most of my work comes from those unknown worlds when we're all asleep!
Julie Achterhoff
- April 27, 2011 at 6:59 PM
- KSCollier said...
Yes, I keep a journal. I don't write daily, but the most important events are in my journals over the years. Journal keeping is an important part of what I would like to pass to my children to know my true feelings in certain doctrine, beliefs, likes and dislikes. Our children (really) knowing who we are is a great legacy to leave behind. I usually use Sunday afternoons to drop a line or two or three or four, or even a few pages. Like writing, how important is it to you?
- April 27, 2011 at 7:18 PM
- Mira said...
I wish I did!
I always start and then stop. It puts me in touch with my feelings at a deep level, and also clarifies my thinking, and I get scared, so I stop.
The one time I consistently journaled was when I was working on the Artist's Way, and I did the three morning pages religiously for a few months. It was amazing how much of a positive effect that had on me. I was more centered, more balanced, thought about things more clearly, it was wonderful. So, naturally, I stopped doing it. :p
But I hope someday I'll go back to it. For one thing, I think that getting in touch with my feelings at a deep level and thinking more clearly would have a really great impact on my writing. But it would also be good for me and my life!
I hope I do it someday!
Great question, Charlee. Great choice of questions, Nathan thanks.
- April 27, 2011 at 7:21 PM
- christinaggaudet said...
I too have kept a diary on and off since I was a teen.
My mother has written in one almost every day for as long as I can remember. She always talks about wanting to write a novel, but I think that between writing a diary and her poetry, she doesn't have enough energy left for more writing.
- April 27, 2011 at 7:28 PM
- S.D. said...
My 'dead diary' is in between the pages of my writing journal. I write half a page to a page, wide-ruled.
My motivation is remembering when things happened (my retrospective sense of time is kaput). It takes about five minutes a night.
- April 27, 2011 at 7:33 PM
- The English Teacher said...
I wrote a couple of thousand journal pages over 30 years until blogging was invented -- and that's so much more fun!
- April 27, 2011 at 7:42 PM
- Jil said...
I kept a diary for every day of a trip we made across the US many years ago. I didn't know then that I would use it as the background for a novel I am just finishing now. It has been invaluable!
- April 27, 2011 at 8:28 PM
- Woodge said...
I used to keep a journal that I'd write in several times a week for about a 14-year span. Still have it. It's all saved in my computer since I typed it. And no one reads it but me. It's interesting picking out patterns of behavior... never mind for remembering details of long ago. The span was from age 21 to 33.
- April 27, 2011 at 8:40 PM
- vonildawrites said...
I will journal about goings-on in my family, or thoughts on a book I've read, but I put them in blog form, or turn them into fiction. If I keep a journal it usually ends up being a bunch of ideas for writing, anyway. I'm not much for the "Ate bacon for breakfast, then went to the park where I saw a pretty cocker spaniel" kind of journals.
- April 27, 2011 at 9:02 PM
- Melanie Hooyenga said...
I started keeping a journal when I moved to Mexico in 2007. I did my best to write at least once a week so I'd have a chronicle of my time there. I eased off towards the end, but I kept at it.
Now I try to write at least every couple weeks to get the crazies out.
- April 27, 2011 at 9:12 PM
- Tahlia said...
I started keeping a diary as a short term class assignment in 9th grade when we were reading "Anne Frank". I liked it so much, I tried to keep going, but writing everyday was a bit much, so I ended up writing sporadically. Then I went to a Christian college and we have chapel 3 times a week and I sort of use journaling as a way of staying awake. So for 4 years, that's how I've kept a journal regularly.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:06 PM
- Rebecca said...
If I had to evacuate with little notice, I'd grab three things: my cat, my laptop, and thirty years worth of journals in two bankers boxes. I journal to work something out (think of it as cheap therapy) and to document events that were really rich. These are different than a blog -- too personal for public consumption, and there is something more sensuous about a fountain pen and fine paper in a leather-bound book.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:12 PM
- Jasmine Cruz said...
I started keeping a diary ever since I was eleven. It felt kind of normal to write in a diary. I'm on my 22nd diary now. It's really interesting to read old diary entries. You can see how foolish you were or something, so old entries can make you laugh. Sometimes past entries can be inspiring. Rereading entries about how you loved this boy so much, and how much it hurts, but now you don't remember him anymore, makes you think that no matter what pain you're going through right now, you'll get over it. I really love writing in my diary. It's like an obsession. I even wrote about it in my blog:
- April 27, 2011 at 10:23 PM
- darbyscloset said...
Thus far, there are periods where I have gone "journal-less" and then there have been periods where I have done the opposite. Do I ever reference these journals...well uh no, yet once while moving I did find my "diary" from 3rd grade, noteing that "we" had purchased a "colored TV". I have saved that "diary" for this entry of mine just cracks me up ..... and I often try to remember life "before" our colored TV. So I guess my answer to your question is "no" yet I think it is a good idea in order to have as a reference/idea jogger for writing material.
- April 28, 2011 at 12:00 AM
- Callie Kingston said...
As I wrote my first novel, I kept a journal to serve as the repository of my daily purge. My fears about writing, the challenges and struggles I experienced throughout the project, and my hopes for the character filled the pages. It was a great way to keep all that from seeping into the novel itself. But my daily life is rather dull to warrant faithful recording of its details in a journal.
- April 28, 2011 at 1:36 AM
- renate said...
I don´t, but I use my blog as one- kinda- sort of- at least it´s a way of sorting my thoughs and staying on track! Actually, thinking about it, I really feel like blogging is keeping it real for me, making me think about life a little more - and how I spend it! Thanks for sharing by the way- you´ve now gotten yourself a brand new follower all the way from Norway ( see you have like a ton, but still- here you go- another fan!) And oh(!)do say hi too good old cali from me- will you! salute! renate
- April 28, 2011 at 3:20 AM
- Sara said...
I keep a diary, erratically. I usually write in it when I feel mixed up or overwhelmed, in other words, I partly use it as a therapist. I also always think of what Virginia Woolf said about hers, that it was a good kind of practice, pulling arrows and firing them without hesitation. I do that kind of writing in it too, sometimes, when I'm having a hard time getting started.
- April 28, 2011 at 8:20 AM
- Emily Wenstrom said...
I keep a journal, but it's not something I'm really committed to. I use it to get lists out of my head, goals, strong emotions, and personal reflection. But I really only write in it every few weeks. It sits in a drawer near my bed, but I often find that when something has to come out on paper, it has to come out NOW, which means I end up typing it in whatever Word doc I'm in at the moment and deleting it later, scribbling it on the back of a receipt … or occasionally, a list will end up on my hand.
I disagree with the idea that it is "nonproductive" writing, though. I feel more focused and at peace with my mind when I get things out on paper. That alone has a great deal of value. But the more I write (marketing, blogs, journalism, novels, short stories, or even yes, journaling), the more I feel the skills from one area positively impacting my writing in another area. Journalism helps me stay accurate, get to the point. Short stories help me write more persuasive ad copy. And yes, journalism helps me channel and hone my inner eye so I can listen to it better. I'm a strong believer in holistic professional development.
- April 28, 2011 at 11:20 AM
- A Ramble in Aphasia said...
I maintained a journal on and off over the years but I never stuck to a religious schedule of writing it daily. Last year I discovered Oh! Life, a wonderful online resource that sends you a reminder mail every evening to update your journal. I found it so useful that I've even written a full post on it: OhLife, Where art thou?
- April 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM
- Nicole said...
Is "dead diary" the term for it now?
Learn something new every day!
I don't. I did when I was in junior high and even occasionally in high school (no, by the way, it wasn't all angst....in fact, I don't think there was any angst until college). But college I started an early blog - it was just ramblings on a webpage without any blog formats or anything (Geocities anyone?). Then I discovered blogger.
However, that eventually faded and I've actually been trying to figure out what to do with my non-writing, non-reading blog...mostly because I like the layout. :D
- April 28, 2011 at 5:43 PM
- Monica said...
I've kept a journal ever since I remember. I try and do it daily or four times a week. It's really cool.I can't wait till I'm sixty and I come back and see what I wrote.
- April 28, 2011 at 8:00 PM
- Roslyn Rice said...
I love to journal. I think that is one of the best ways to grow in your writing. We move at such a fast pace, keeping a journal helps us remember all the rejection but also all the victories.
- April 28, 2011 at 9:31 PM
- Robin McCormack said...
I do 'morning pages' as suggested by Julia Cameron of The Artist's Way. First thing in the morning, 3 stream of consciousness handwritten pages. Someday's I just talk about what did the day before, other times work out on the page a problem or something related to my current WIP. Find it actually wakes my brain up and prepares for novel writing.
- April 28, 2011 at 10:14 PM
With the ePublishing boom going on in Kindle, do you plan on releasing any novelettes or short stories on Kindle to promote your book? Jeff VanderMeer, J M McDermott, Catherynne Valente all seem to be doing it. Do you think kids read Kindles?
- April 29, 2011 at 9:55 AM
- Barb said...
I do. Actually, it is the very concept of a journal that led me to writing a novel. I began to notice stories and characters within my journal so I took those and made them into a fictional story. Whallah! It progressed to a novel. I have found that when I journal mindless random thoughts, I can always go back to them to pull out the 'raw real life' emotions and feelings within them and use them for a story. I also created an Author page (which you suggested. High fives, knuckle bumps and a Big thank you.) I also have a facebook page too. Simple Southern Life. Fowler Robertson, author. I pull ideas from my journal and create stories for my blog post too. I am just starting out with the Author page but it is growing and I'm getting good responses. I suppose that a journal helps me because I have so much info swirling around in my head, that if I don't get it out, I will have a mental meltdown. I don't journal everyday, but I DO jot things down where ever the idea comes up and it ends up in my journal. Nathan, check out my page and let me know what you think? thanks for your awesome information! You rule! OH...and here's a question I've been meaning to ask you. Maybe you can write and post about it one day. I have received an endorsement from a well known author....will that help me get my foot in the door of an agent? Is it a waste of time to have an endorsement? What is the 'low down' on Endorsements and new authors, writers.
- April 29, 2011 at 11:03 AM
I randomly write a diary when I'm annoyed or angry or, as one of the commenters here helpfully put it, going through teenage angst. It lasts for a couple of days and I don't have anywhere concrete where I put in all my thoughts. It is quite nice stumbling across a rant I wrote and kind of thinking how silly it all seems now.
I personally think writing a diary is useful. I write YA. I am a YA. When I write in my diary, I get serious teen emotions back. So, for me, it is incredibly useful.
But Nathan. What on earth is a "dead diary?" My diary certainly isn't dead and I don't simply put where I went and what I did in. I write to express emotions, which in a way is what I do for my WIPs. It is productive and I honestly recommend you try writing one for a week and look back on it in a year and think what an asshole you were and how much you've improved. Then do the same thing every year. It should make us all feel better about getting older because we have record of how our younger selves were stupider selves. =) =P
- April 30, 2011 at 10:31 AM
- Sonia said...
My blog is the closest I've gotten to keeping a journal. ;)
- April 30, 2011 at 11:03 PM

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Hey, sorry, but I need a gesture that one of the main characters in "Harry Potter" makes a lot or is really famous (other than pointing the wand). I know this sounds random, but it's for an audition. Thanks for you help!
I cant say this is a great one, but when Harry would put his hand on his scar, and then make a face showing agony. Not great, but the best I can think of off the top of my head. ADR1 23:04, August 26, 2010 (UTC)
Ron had a very specific look whenever he was either in an awkward situation or embarrassed, where he would put his hands in his front pockets and tips his head down a certain way, I can't remember specifics without seeing the movies again. It's hard to think of certain gestures, but a lot of the characters had certain ways they would walk or hold their hands or faces they would make. --BachLynn23 00:14, August 27, 2010 (UTC)
Well, for one, in earlier movies, Harry would do this weird growl looking thing with his mouth when he was angry...


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The Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) Distinguished Alumni Award honors graduates who have epitomized The Woods tradition of excellence by their professional achievement, personal accomplishment or humanitarian service to their community, state or nation. This year's recipient, Rachel Eberle Ambrose '64, is no exception. For her leadership in maintaining a level of career excellence over her lifetime and for her commitment to her alma mater, SMWC will name Ambrose as the 2012 Distinguished Alumni at its commencement on Saturday, May 5, 2012.
Ambrose retired three years ago after 45 years as a journalist with The Associated Press, one of the largest and most trusted sources of independent newsgathering. Her career began first in Indianapolis, Ind., with the last 42 years in Los Angeles, Calif., where she served as broadcast supervisor for California and Nevada.
"Our distinguished alumnae have achieved a level of excellence in their professions, have contributed to knowledge in their disciplines, and have been guided by the principles of a Woods education. Rachel has demonstrated exceptional and sustained leadership in her career and in her community. We're proud that she was selected as this year's recipient."
-Dottie King, Ph.D., president of SMWC
A native of Floyds Knobs, Ind., Ambrose graduated from Clarksville Providence High School. She graduated from The Woods with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism. While at SMWC, she served as co-director of the College News Bureau her junior year and editor of the school newspaper her senior year. She attributes the College for helping hone her love of writing into a marketable skill.
At the Associated Press in Indianapolis, she worked as Indiana broadcast editor. In Los Angeles, she garnered national and international AP awards for spirit, achievement and breaking news coverage. Several of her stories earned national media coverage including her reports on the O.J. Simpson trial and the San Francisco earthquake.
Upon her retirement, Ambrose was honored with achievement awards from the Associated Press Television-Radio Association (APTRA), of which she was executive director for 35 years, and Radio-TV News Association of Southern California for which she served on the board of directors for 20 years. APTRA also named its Internet breaking news awards for Ambrose. Dedicated to her craft, she mentors in the APTRA Academy boot camp program she helped found in Malibu, Calif., in 2000. She also volunteers on the marketing committee of the Science Center in Los Angeles.
Ambrose has served as president of the Southern California chapter of the SMWC Alumni Association and the Torrance (Calif.) branch of the American Association of University Women.
She lives in the Los Angeles area (Palos Verdes Estates) with her husband of 39 years, George, also a retired journalist. Their son, Josiah Ambrose, M.D., lives in San Mateo, Ca., with his wife, Mary Alice, and their son, Ezra.
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The Better Part – A Christ-Centered Resource for Personal Prayer
January 24, 2010 by Dan Burke
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The Better Part: A Christ-Centered Resource for Personal Prayer
by Father John Bartunek, LC, ThD
No one who is learning or desires to learn to pray more deeply and meditate more effectively on the person and work of Christ should go without this book. It offers a basic but at the same time sufficiently comprehensive overview of how to meditate in the Christian tradition (no New Age or Hindu/Buddhist influences here.)
Beyond the solid instruction on meditation method, Father John provides us with meditations through each verse of the four Gospels and group study questions at the end of each of the 303 meditation units.
This work provides spiritual reading and meditation material for every day of the liturgical year, every mass, or spiritual reading on a daily basis.
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God's Idea of Prayer
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Difficulties in Prayer
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If you want to deepen your relationship with Christ by learning to meditate on Christ and his teaching through timeless and authentic reality of Christ in the Gospels, this is the best way I know of. If you want to start or enrich a small group study, this is also a fantastic resource.
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Here's an out-of-the-box thought. What if I require more than one password on my sign-in page? Would that confound the phishing bots? (If so, then I could even allow the client to enter relatively easily remembered passwords).
Isn't 2 passwords really just the same as username + password combination or do you mean that users have to remember 3 things?!
My point is that the malicious software phising bots expect just one password in addition to the username. Hence the bizarre requirements for developing passwords (e.g. 8 characters, uppercase, lower case, number, special characters) as protection.
Adding a second password (or as you put it "remember 3 things") I'm thinking would defeat these bots because, even it it guesses one of the passwords, it's not expecting a second one -- and therefore will fail to break into the site.
As such, the passwords need not be so complex.
Afraid it would just making things more complicated for your users. Your users alone are responsible for creating strong passwords and managing them. Its not yours. The only thing you have to do is store them in a secure matter. And those bots could easily adapt to the change anyways.
Sadly, exactly the opposite thing will happen. Your strange and odd security measures will attract the attention of all sorts, resulting in special attention being paid to your site from groups who attempt to automate their way around such things.
Your best bet to avoid notice is to apply the same best practice techniques that others use. Those are the most reliably known ways to reman secure without annoying your uses too much.
Nothing is impossible for a malicious software trying to detect a password. Even if you put something new, you would rather attract the attention of programmers as you are the founder of this innovation. They would go to far ends just to crack this challenge! In regards to the security, if you use md5 encryption, and if you instruct your users to create a difficult password with a combination of symbols, letters and numbers, with NO word from the english dictionary and no numbers in a proper sequence, there is no way a malware can decrypt it. This is because the encrypted code of every password keeps changing and only your server will be aware of the combination. Not even you!
Too complicated, some people wouldn`t bother remembering those passwords. Just use a good captcha along with the password, like skrill.com does and you should be fine. But no way 2 passwords.
Thanks to all for your responses. I'll defer to your judgement.
No argument if we are looking for who (whom?) to blame. But, as the linkedin hack demonstrated, users are not particularly diligent in devising strong, esoteric passwords (among the top 30 passwords: link [941] 1234 [435] work[294] god[219] job[205] from mashable dot com slash 2012 slash 0608 slash linkedin-stolen-passwords-list)
Okay, why would it attract attention? Some feedback mechanism the 'bot sends back?
Finally, I find I am not alone in finding capchas (or would that be capchi?) particularly annoying. See www dot socialreflections dot com slash unreadable-captchas-can-destroy-your-business
Again, I will defer to your comments. And thank you for your feedback.
But it is still not your responsibility. You can try and educate the user on using secure passwords, however it is better that you do not enforce any strict rules. You are only responsible for making the backend secure, storing those passwords in a secure way.
Not quite. It's because anything strange and new attracts attention, as this thread well demonstrates too.When users of your site start to use a login process that to them is strange, some of them are liable to talk to others about it. Word gets out.
You don't need to include a CAPTCHA with a password because the password process can be set up as an even better CAPTCHA all by itself.
Simply record the time when an invalid access attempt is made and lock the account completely for a period of time - any further attempts even with the right password during the lock time simply reset the lock start time so as to extend the lock period.
To make it more user friendly and more secure at the same time you can also record the number of unsuccessful attempts since the last successful one and use say a two second lock time for the first two wrong attempts and thirty seconds or even a minute if the wrong guresses continue after that.
No bot is going to wait more than a minute between guesses and even if it did it would then take way too long to get to the right password.
The best CAPTCHA to use on any site where you need your visitors to log into their account anyway is to require a password. That way your CAPTCHA is far less obtrusive than ones that require your visitor to read scrambled text in an image or perform some sort of calculation. Also the CAPTCHA not only identifies that it is a real person and not a bot - it also identifies which real person it is as only one real person knows the password.


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AMHERST – It's cats, not Cats.
Spring Street Academy's spring theatre production is a musical featuring felines, but it's The Aristocats Kids, not Andrew Lloyd Weber's famed production.
"I always like to do Disney shows," said Ruth Nichols, teacher and show director. The kids know the material and relate to it, she said.
Nichols said the production will have top-notch sound, lighting and sets. The audience should come to the show prepared to be "really entertained."
The curtain rises May 24, with shows the 25th and 26th as well. Tickets are $5.
"We held auditions the first, second and third of February," said Charlene Moore, a substitute teacher who is also the stage manager.
"I love the show. It's so cute," she said, citing catchy songs and strong performances from students.
Practices are being held every day after school for half an hour to an hour. Different roles and parts of the show are rehearsed different days.
Nichols said co-ordinating rehearsals for the more than 100 students in the cast is the toughest part of putting on the show. Kids have other commitments, and all of them depend on their parents to pick them up.
Jenna Stevens is a student cast member. The material appeals to her.
"I like cats," she said.
Being in the show has given her an opportunity to learn new things.
"…How to dance, how to be a cat…," said Stevens. The student is most looking forward to dancing on opening night.


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Why Dr. Luke owes Miley Cyrus a $10,000 toilet
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"Unlike Dr. Dre, that other faux-medical badass beatmaker, Dr. Luke is a white guy."
So begins The New Yorker's wonderful profile of Dr. Luke, the 40-year-old hitmaker behind everything from "Since U Been Gone" to "I Kissed a Girl" to "Wrecking Ball." If you're looking for a taste of just how interesting this guy's life has been, consider the following anecdote:
[Dr. Luke] can make a song that's also a business plan. Still, it's always a gamble. With "Wrecking Ball", for example, [he] wasn't sure it was a smash, and he wagered against it, telling Cyrus he would buy her a Numi toilet like his, the ultimate in potty technology (it has a Bluetooth receiver that can stream music from a smartphone), if he was wrong. Cyrus told me, "Contrary to what he thinks, Dr. Luke isn't always right. I bet him him that 'Wrecking Ball' would go to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and it did. Now he has to buy me a ten-thousand-dollar toilet. I'll be thinking of him every time I go."
Complex has compiled some of the other standout moments of the piece, but you should do yourself a favor and pick up a hard copy. And a Numi toilet, if you can swing it.


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Metastatic Cancer in Solid Tumors and Clinical Outcome: Skeletal-Related Events
Metastatic Cancer in Solid Tumors and Clinical Outcome: Skeletal-Related Events
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Metastasis to the bone represents a frequent complication of visceral cancers, most commonly in patients with advanced breast, prostate, and lung cancer. More than 50% of patients with advanced breast or prostate cancer have identifiable bone metastasis, and 30% to 40% of patients with non–small-cell lung cancer ultimately develop metastases to bone. Most tumors preferentially metastasize to the axial skeleton, targeting the vertebrae, pelvis, proximal ends of long bones, and skull. Skeletal complications as a result of these metastases are widely recognized to increase mortality and decrease quality of life—specifically the loss of mobility, independence, and social functioning of a patient. Advances in understanding the mechanisms of metastasis to bone, the resulting physiologic disturbances that take place, screening, diagnosis, and availability of better treatment options are advancing clinicians' abilities to combat this devastating problem.
More than 50% of patients with advanced breast or prostate cancer have identifiable bone metastasis, and 30% to 40% of patients with non–small-cell lung cancer ultimately develop metastases to bone.[1,2] Most tumors preferentially metastasize to the axial skeleton, targeting the vertebrae, pelvis, proximal ends of long bones, and skull.[3] Skeletal complications as a result of these metastases are widely recognized to increase mortality and decrease quality of life—specifically the loss of mobility, independence, and social functioning of a patient.
Bone has several features that render it a target of circulating tumor cells. Stephen Paget first noted this in 1889 in his "seed and soil" hypothesis, whereby he postulated that the complimentary characteristics of a target organ and circulating tumor cells determines where tumors ultimately metastasize.[4,5] With bone, the high blood flow to the marrow serves to harbor and supply certain tumor cells with the necessary media in which to grow and multiply. Successful metastasis is largely dependent on immediate survival during migration, clonal expansion, and development of local blood supply. Additionally, tumor cells express adhesive molecules that allow them to bind to stromal and matrix elements of the bone.
Healthy bone undergoes constant remodeling, directed by the influence of endocrine hormones like parathyroid hormone (PTH) and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (1,24-(OH)2D3), paracrine hormones, and cytokines. In the setting of metastasis, the structural integrity of bone is compromised due to disruptions in the normal balance of osteolytic and osteoblastic activity. The resulting lesions leave the bone weakened and prone to damage even under low-impact stress events. This commonly results in debilitating bone pain and can also lead to other skeletal-related events (SREs) such as pathologic fractures, bone deformation, leukoerythroblastic anemia, subsequent surgery or radiation, threatening hypercalcemia of malignancy, and spinal cord or nerve root compression.[6] Most primary research, however, reports on four of these SREs: radiation, surgery, fractures, and spinal cord compression.
Incidence of SREs and Subsequent SREs
A recent retrospective review found the incidence of bony metastasis to be 24% and 30%, respectively in American and Japanese patient populations with non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Of these 66% were noted to have skeletal lesions at the time of their initial staging on positron-emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) scan.[7]
In the placebo arm of a randomized control trial, Rosen et al found that patients with lung carcinoma or other visceral tumors with metastasis to bone (excluding carcinomas of the breast and prostate) experience an average of 2.71 SREs/year.[8] The risk of additional SREs after the first also increases with each event. Other studies have noted that patients can experience up to four SREs per year, the cumulative incidence of which can have negative consequences on overall survival.[9] One analysis of insurance claims of patients with metastatic prostate cancer found that 22% of patients experienced more than one SRE with a mean time of 2.9 months between identification of the first type and the second type of SRE (if they were different, eg, surgery and pathologic fracture).[10] This same study also found that most patients experience radiation therapy, as shown in Figure 1, when they experience a SRE. Only 23.4% of SREs were found to be pathological fractures.
RANK Ligand Pathway
The increased risk of SREs in the setting of bony metastasis stems from a series of perturbations in the normal physiologic activity of bone remodeling. Normal bone is composed of two types: cortical bone, composed of hard, mineralized matrix; and trabecular or cancellous bone, which is less dense and more metabolically active. Cortical bone accounts for 85% of the total bone mass and can be found in the long bones of the appendicular skeleton. The other 15% makes up the cancellous bone that houses the red marrow, which contains stromal cells and hematopoietic stem cells that differentiate into osteoblasts and osteoclasts, respectively. Cancellous bone is found primarily in the vertebral bodies and pelvis. Osteoblasts are responsible for the deposition of new mineral matrix, creating new bone. Osteoclasts are responsible for the resorption of old bone in response to hormonal milieu. The mineralized matrix of bone contains immobilized cytokines and other growth factors that can directly influence neighboring cells—factors like tumor growth factor–beta (TGF-beta), insulin-like growth factor–2 (IGF-2), bone morphogenic proteins (BMPs), fibroblast growth factors (FGFs), and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF).[11] Until bone is resorbed through osteoclastic activity, though, these cytokines remain fixed and nearby cells are not influenced by their hidden presence. A list of factors that regulate remodeling of bone is shown in Table 1.
The human body regulates calcium homeostasis and phosphate homeostasis in large part through parathyroid hormone (PTH), 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, and their action on bone, the GI tract, and the nephron. Calcitonin, a product of thyroid parafollicular C-cells, plays a small role in the activation of osteoblasts. In the bone, while osteoclasts oppose the actions of osteoblasts, the former cells, in fact, rely on the latter for cues in activity. Namely, osteoblast stimulation results in the release of receptor activator of RANK ligand. RANK ligand acts on its receptor, RANK, found on osteoclastic progenitor cells, to induce osteoclast formation and activity. At the same time, osteoblasts secrete osteoprotegerin (OPG), a decoy receptor of RANK ligand, effectively competing with RANK ligand to activate osteoclastic progenitor cells. The ratio of available RANK ligand and OPG, which is further influenced by local cytokines and growth factors, determines the net deposition or resorption of bone.
A so-called "vicious cycle" is created when tumor cells synthesize and release osteolytic factors, including PTH-related protein (PTHrP), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and tumor necrosis factor–alpha (TNF-alpha), among many others. These stimulate osteoclasts, which in turn resorb bone and then release the fixed growth factors, which positively influence the growth of tumor cells. These growth factors close a positive feedback loop on the tumor cells by activating them, creating an endless loop of activity that drives an osteolytic lesion.[12,13] These pathways and their pathologic deviations are depicted in Figure 2 and discussed in greater detail in the paper by Murthy et al earlier in this supplement.
Types of Bone Metastasis
Metastatic lesions of the bone can be classified in one of three ways: osteolytic, osteoblastic, or mixed.[14] Most cancers result in osteolytic lesions (carcinoma of breast and lung). In vivo studies have shown that osteolysis is due to osteoclastic activity, and is not a direct effect of the cancer itself. Overall, osteolytic lesions result from greater osteoclast than osteoblast cellular activity, resulting in uncoupled bone resorption. That is, there is no negative feedback mechanism to halt the process.[15] Targeting the various intersections within the positive feedback loop with appropriate therapies can clinically prevent further degradation of the bone, preserving function and preventing or delaying SREs.[16]
Prostate cancer (and 15% to 20% of breast cancers) results in osteoblastic lesions of the bone. In these lesions, the balance has been thought to shift to more bone deposition than destruction, as shown with correlation of levels of alkaline phosphatase and osteocalcin, both markers of osteoblastic activity. However, the bone that is deposited is of poor quality and often leads to severe bone pain and still puts the patient at risk for pathologic fractures and other subsequent SREs.
Research implicates the activity of Endothelin-1 (ET-1) as a mediator of this activity through both paracrine and autocrine activity on osteoblast cells. Prostate cancer and some breast cancer cells secrete high levels of ET-1, which in turn stimulate osteoblast cells.[17] An in vitro analysis found that an ET-1 receptor antagonist reduced osteoblastic activity.[18] The microenvironment of bone may further enhance ET-1 activity through the stimulation of prostate cancer cell proliferation and potentiating the effect of other local growth factors.[19]
That there exist two types of bony metastatic lesions is likely an oversimplification, as normal physiology dictates a carefully choreographed balance of activity from osteoclasts and osteoblasts. Perturbation of this healthy model does not likely inactivate one aspect of normal bone homeostasis, but rather results in an over-preponderance of bone deposition or destruction. This view was validated by a mouse model examining the activity of osteoblastic xenograft breast cancers.[20]
Researchers initially saw an increase in osteolytic activity followed by a resurgence in osteoblastic deposition of bone. Similarly, osteolytic lesions often result in new (albeit ineffective) bone deposition in response to the loss of healthy bone. As such, even in osteoblastic lesions specific to prostate cancer, osteolytic activity is comparable to that observed in breast cancer and multiple myeloma. Because osteolysis plays an important role in both lesions, it is believed that pharmacologic targeting—especially by bisphosphonates, which are potent inhibitors of osteoclasts—can serve to mitigate the horrendous clinical effects of such metastatic lesions.


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Shania Twain Considering A Return To Touring
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Garth Brooks isn't the only '90s country superstar on the verge of a comeback. Shania Twain is playing her first full concerts outside of Las Vegas in a decade, performing this week at Canada's Calgary Stampede.
She tells the Calgary Herald she "was pretty open" to playing the event, and was "excited about the idea of doing a concert environment show again."
Shania adds that she and her team are "looking at some dates already," which will probably be scheduled for the spring. She says she could be ready to make an announcement later this summer.
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THE Lake Illawarra community is split over the future of the waterway as a commercial fishing resource, some arguing the current situation is not sustainable.
A state government-commissioned review will consider this as part of an industry evaluation.
Windang's Peter Mair, a long-time lake activist said its capacity to remain a viable commercial fishing spot was diminishing.
Instead, he proposed transforming it into a recreational facility to boost tourism.
"Good things are happening at the lake, not least a considerable investment in the restoration of infrastructure adjacent to the Windang Bridge," he said.
"It's now past the point when it remains sensible to permit commercial fishing on Lake Illawarra.
"The lake community is ever more concerned that the impact is, on balance, destructive."
Mr Mair also proposed local and state governments co-operating to cover part of the cost of a buy-out of commercial fishing licences via a capital levy on property owners, proportional to the proximity of residential properties to the lake itself.
He argued this would quickly translate to increasing residential property values more than sufficient to cover the accumulating cost of any levy.
Warilla Hotel Fishing Club president Joe Da Silva agreed with many of Mr Mair's suggestions, saying their club and others nearby had halved bag limits during competitions to ease the burden on the lake.
"What they are doing in that lake is not sustainable," he said.
However, he disagreed with the levy proposal.
"We pay enough for our licences and everything we buy is taxed," he said.
Barry Aish, owner of Aish's Seafood at Berkeley has been commercially fishing on Lake Illawarra for more than 50 years.
He said there was no scientific evidence indicating commercial fishermen were harming the lake.
"Where do the public get their fresh fish from?" he said.
"People looking to close places like Lake Illawarra, Shoalhaven River, Tuggerah Lakes... I think there's a big possibility if we don't fight and get public support, we could be gone.
"People who want to close it to commercial fishing are very selfish or ignorant of the facts."
A Department of Primary Industries spokesperson said the government supported sustainable fishing by all sectors, including improving the viability of commercial fishing.
"Overall, the fish stocks in NSW are in good shape, with only a very small proportion of species that are classified as over-fished," the spokesperson said. "However, the state government acknowledges the structure and management of commercial fisheries needs to change and that is why it commissioned an independent review into commercial fisheries policy, which was completed in March.
"Policy commitments have been made on the basis of that review and the government is close to releasing its more detailed response to the 22 key recommendations."