Some thoughts on keeping a notebook from Jay Montville:

on one for the blogs I read recently, the author (who shall remain nameless not because I’m trying to protect her, but because I can’t find the link, so I don’t actually remember her name) said that journalling is not writing.

*gasp*!

I know! Because most writing advice websites and books and instructors strongly advocate journals. “Carry a notebook at all times!” they say. “Jot down things!” “Do this writing exercise!”

But the blogger I read before said all this is crap (not her words). “Writers WRITE”, was the basic tenor of her advice. “They don’t fool around with ‘jotting.'”

And I have to say, I agree with her. And I keep a journal.

But those two things are very different–I keep a journal because I like it.