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ending every journal entry with “later!”

been doing this for years I think partially because my OCD tells me nothing can Get Me if I told my journal I’d be back later

@sabina

Jan 26, 2024

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end your journal entries with affirmations

It’s a good perspective shift, and when you go to journal again your eyes land on the affirmations, reminding you that you felt good not too long ago, and you can feel good again. I tend to make mine very existential. Lol.

@masteroogway

Apr 10, 2024

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first few lines of a journal entry

basic bitches quote themselves in their own diaries 😘

@lynnnnie

May 9, 2024

Top Recs from @patrickgray

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the royal tenenbaums

When I was 13 the only things that I can remember being particularly fond of were baseball and the Lonely Island - watching the Royal Tenenbaums on TV one night was (at risk of seeming trite) 'life changing' for even just the fact that my adolescent baseball career was on the decline and I needed something new to invest my time in. The montage of Gene Hackman playing with his Adidas tracksuited grandsons set to 'Me & Julio Down By the Schoolyard' indoctrinated me into a life of whimsy, for better or worse.

@patrickgray

Jan 5, 2024

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advice on writing from joyce carol oates

"One of the most common and saddest spectacles is that of a person of really fine sensibility and acute psychological perception trying to write fiction by these qualities alone. This type of writer will put down one intensely emotional or keenly perceptive sentence after the other, and the result will be complete dullness. The facts is that the materials of the fiction writer are the humblest. Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you."

@patrickgray

Jan 13, 2024

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not being bothered by your own contradictions

What is delightful is often paradoxical.

@patrickgray

Dec 22, 2023