I wish I had kept the journal I had in 7th and 8th grade. I wanted an older brother so bad (I'm the oldest so that never happened) so I wrote my journal as letters to my brother that I didn't have who was away in the Army. Every page started "Dear Fred.." Anyway one day I got home from school or somewhere and my sister (4 years younger) and her friends were laughing loudly in her room.. at my journal. Turns out she shipped around for it and found it and was reading it aloud to her friends. I was SO mad and embarrassed!! I'm sure I threatened to kill her and in fear of my thoughts being found by her again. I burned that journal in our wood stove and didn't keep another for a long time. I've started keeping them again and these are more journals I don't mind sharing rather than a diary like that old one. There's a lot of doodling and scrapbooking that goes on in my journals now. Just thought I'd share.
I think I have become addicted to journaling videos ever since you posted your first one. I had always loved to write stuff down so that I could remember what was going on and look back on smaller memories that might not be vivid years down the road. I haven't done much journaling yet, but I keep 2 at once. One that I use for my novel/story ideas and characters (and also dreams) and the other for just everything else. I've really wanted to start making a journal video here and there to post on my channel, but I haven't been doing it long and I don't know if I should.
My journals are a bit of a public speaking aid for me. I'm home schooled, so due to a lack of social interaction, I'm not good at expressing my opinions. But with all this alone time to think about social and personal issues, my journals have become a place where I can write that stuff down so that, if ever moved to speak about such things, I know that all my important opinions have already been put into words and I can just loosely recite it off the top of my head without worrying :)
In my earliest journal that I have, I mention a previous journal that I had beforehand and i'm so upset that I don't remember what I did with it. :/ I PROBABLY HAD A LOT OF GOOD GOSSIP IN THAT ONE
WhittyNovels Annoying, innit? I remember a couple of things that I wrote, but that is it. I had so many pages, so many thoughts... If I could go back in time I'd take them out of my past self's hands and slap myself too. Maybe you are lucky and you'll find it one day. Let me know and share it with me =D
this inspired me to start journaling again! i don't know if i will, but my mom used to make me journal my day every single day when i was very young. it's fun to read it over and see how i used to think back then. i think because she made me chronicle my life, it made my writing better in some way, too.
I sort of do journaling, but like, journaling in tweet format. I write really short entires in my Moleskine planner about my (mental) health, what I did that day, any inside jokes with friends we came up with that day, lists, thoughts, anything. I thought I didn't do journaling anymore but apparently I do. It's been a lot easier like this than writing 'dear diary' every day and having to like... put effort into it. :')
Whenever I lose the motivation to journal, I watch this video and it helps me every single time. It just reminds me that I don't need to create anything other than what I want to, so thank you for the inspiration! :)
First off, I love your videos- I have for a while, pretty much since I started getting into the booktube community roughly a year ago, because you have always seemed so GENUINE, and I love it. You are the type of TH-camr who makes me wish we were friends rather than making me wish I was doing awesome cool wild things in my life for thousands of people to see. I always enjoy seeing your take on things! Second, I really love your journaling videos!!! I've been journaling on and off since I was about 12 or 13 years old (so 10-11 years... that was a smack in the face to realize just now!) and it's something I absolutely love to do and encourage as many people as possible to do. Even though I am the definition of embarrassing and cringe-worthy in my 14-year-old-me journal, I would never get rid of it or trade it for anything!! My journals as I got older started containing more and more dark subject material as my mental health issues started to "blossom" (for lack of better phrasing), but again- I'd never get rid of them or trade them for anything, because they're mementos to me, that show me where I've been and how far I've come. Last week my dad was helping me clean and organize my room- he was mainly just giving me tips (because cleaning and organizing can really overwhelm me sometimes), but he was also in charge of arranging things that I handed him into a big tote bin so they'd fit better. He'd been advising me to get rid of anything I didn't need or want, and I'd already filled up a trash bag of stuff I felt I could do without. So I handed him my 14-year-old-me journal, and he asked what it was, and I told him it was one of my old journals. He started questioning whether I really wanted/needed to keep it and I was so shocked at the suggestion that I would ever get rid of one of my journals! I said "Why? It's one of my journals", to which he responded with something about what if one day my husband or kids were to find it and read it? But my thing is... so what if my hypothetical future family were to read my old journals? Ideally at that point I wouldn't be hiding things from them, right? So it wouldn't even matter, what they read! My point in rambling on for so long was really just to tell you that I think you and your videos are wonderful, and that I'm glad to have found some solidarity in journal-loving. I'm so sorry this turned into a huge ramble but it's 6:11am and I haven't slept yet so I'm kind of delirious :P I hope you have a great day and that I didn't weird you out a ton!
Iove journals! Really the best advice is everything counts. When I look back in my journals I'm just so happy to remember things I've forgotten about. Subjects I hated, how I felt in class, etc.
+B.F. Simone Exactly! I think the coolest thing is writing down tiny, tiny details that I know i'll never remember in the future. Even the smallest things like the pattern on your bedspread or which desk you sat in at school would trigger so many memories when i'm older.
+WhittyNovels it soooo does! I've even started a new book based off of some of those memories. It brought such a unique look I'd completely forgot abou
+giantchanyeol I've never thought of that before! i'm sure i talk about the same topics over and over but usually when I discuss something it means I want to get it off my chest, so it never FEELS repetitive :)
+giantchanyeol I do this in all of life, i started a blog, i go to write a topic and I'm like no, no one wants to hear about this or half of this blog is just repeating it's self, I think if its on your mind and you want to write about it just do it, try to kill that inner critic and just write, I'm sure when you come back and read the journal or what ever you'll realize it's probably not repeating its self as much as you think it is and as well as that, even if it is, the perspective of which you are writing, is probably never the same.
I love my journal! I've had it since March 2014 but didn't start writing in it daily till Sept 2015. it's full of pictures, quotes, lists, receipts, drawings, rants, and pressed flowers! I agreed with you this entire video. my journal always starts with one topic but usually ends with my talking/complaining about something else! I can't get into prompts but if nothing happened and I want to journal I go to pinterest and find quotes or drawings and put my spin on them! I really can't wait to see a flip through of your current journal!! xoxo 💙😊📚
This is awesome girl! With social media it seems that writing things on paper is a lost art. I want to upload a journaling video now! AND Embrace being single! every stage of life is amazing
I made many journals since childhood cause I always got excited, wrote a few entries and then lost interest. Than I would start another and the cycle repeated. I have my last journal for a year almost and I decided to not abandon this one till I finish it, even if it's in 10 years. I rarely write about my day or what I did, but I try to put somethimg in whenever I feel some very strong emotion. Since that doesn't happen much, sometimes I write once in 2 months. But I don't want to push it. The main thing is for it to not feel as some mandatory homework or sthg.
You mentioned starting a quote journal and I highly highly recommend it! I've had one going for about two years now. Basically, once I'm finished a book I take all the quotes I liked and add them in (plus a few quotes that I see from celebrities or friends or something like that) It's really cool having a whole source of all these quotes you like and I love flipping through it to see them all. It's especially a good pick me up on a bad day weirdly enough. I actually even started a quotes series on my channel where I just read quotes from books that I wrote down. Hope you make one!
Your video was very helpful..I use to journal in high school..and after I started working I just didn't have the time...and I've been trying to start again...but all these videos about planners and journals and drawing your life..has overwhelmed me. Your video has really made is clear to me on how to start back. Thank you.
Awesome video! Its because of your videos and journal flip throughs that I was able to realize how journaling can be a creative fun thing. I'd journaled a lot as a child, but after my mom constantly reading it behind my back and it actually getting stolen at school I stopped. So thank you so much for your awesome videos and cute personality.
I am loving all the journal videos! I have a many decade history of journaling so it's really interesting to me to see so many people keeping journals and how you all do it. I wish, though, that I could find a wider age range of journal keepers. I'm wondering how much other people's journals have changed as they get older. If you or any of your subscribers know of journal videos from people in their 30's or older (or would be interested in a collab), please let me know!
I just randomly re-watched one of your old journaling videos, which I LOVE, and thought "I wish she'd do another one of these!"... and then I saw this on my subscribers feed! YAY! You have really inspired me to journal ever since that first video!!!
This video was very helpful. I keep a ton of journals but lately I've just been keeping a writing inspirations list and this video gave me some more ideas so hopefully I can start writing more frequently!
I used to journal every single day since I was 8. Then I went to university and just stopped. I kind of want to start again but then I keep second guessing myself because there would be a 2 year gap in the journal and I feel like it would annoy me... Like so much has changed since then so it would be weird... Idk... maybe I'll start in the summer again.
+Jay G (TheAwkwardBookworm) That's what happened to my first journal. I would post in it maybe once a year, and that was for about 5 years until I finally started writing regularly. I think it's actually cool to write with huge gaps in between! It shows the honesty of how you lost interest for a while.
Thank you, Whitney, for being my journaling inspiration. I started my first creative journal last summer because of you and your videos. I'm currently working on my 5th journal now. I really do appreciate you so much and I love you a lot. ❤
I primarily use my journal as more of a diary than anything else, and since I don't really do a lot, or go out a lot, I don't often write in it. I Actually only started it about a year and half or so ago because I was reading a book I was really into, and I was having all these feelings because of where I was and I just really had this overwhelming urge to write once I got home from my job that day. My job was a source of a ton of stress, so I mostly wrote about that often, but I also CONSTANTLY wrote about whatever book I was reading at the time. So many journal entries about Rose Hathaway from Vampire Academy. Lol. I wasn't very consistent with it, and I'm still not, but I've been trying to write in it more lately. It's just, there's so little for me to talk about because my life is super uneventful, and I don't really want to write about every little thing I do when I'm at home because it's not that interesting. However, I think just after typing this comment and watching this video, I have an idea of something I can try to be more consistent without getting bored with what I write about, so I'm actually super happy I watched this video now.
As much as I want to journal, I've always had trouble finishing what I've started (in like... All parts of my life) and I have soooo many unfinished journals. I'd start out trying to journal every day and then it'd get less and less until I gave up. And then I'd restart in a new journal. Right now, I'm doing Q&A a day and it's going well so far. And I also found this "642 Things to write (about me)" (not sure that the number 642 is correct, but oh well) and it's not necessarily a typical journal but the prompts give me interesting topics to write about and encourage creativity, so I'm really liking that right now.
+Kristen BOOKS (Kristen Bright) I always did that- I would do one entry then forget/never finish. But just choose one and keep writing and keep writing, no matter how much time passes in between! Eventually it will become more regular!
One thing I write about is how awesome I think other people's journals are. I watch flip throughs on TH-cam all the time because I like to see how other people journal, as opposed to how I do it. I just recently started doing journal videos, and I might do a flip through soon, just because I love it so much to watch other peoples' journaling videos and flip throughs.
i just discovered one of your flip thru videos few days ago and thank you very much for you've inspired me a lot. I MEAN, A LOT. you're adorable as your journals, whitney! my resolution this year is to improve my writing and i believe journaling will help me work on that and it's really fun to watch your journaling videos istg!!!! i love the way you talk and the stuffs you put in your journal. you're completely right that it doesnt have to look perfect and artsy for the thought or its content matter more. keep on doing these lovely things, dear. :))))
You are an amazing girl. Right when I just have lost my motivation you helped me find it back again. I'm journaling too, but haven't done it in few days.... But now I have too many ideas and not enough notebooks lol. Thank you :)
Thanks so much for helping me start journaling! I hate my handwriting and I get tired of writing by hand, so I always thought I couldn't start a journal. I started in september because of your videos. I've already filled a journal and I'm on my second journal! my journals have lots of stickers and lists but i really like them. thanks for inspiring me!
I love you soooooooooo much. I'm pretty young... So I see you as an inspiration. As a fellow book lover, I love your book reviews, and as crafty as I am, I love your journaling videos. I just wanted to say thank you for making me happy. ♥️
I love your shirt and braid! I just started a journal because of you and this video. I just wrote my first journal entry and I feel great so thank you!
Some very great tips, I totally follow them as well with my own journaling! I will do a blogpost on journaling as well! I'm so glad you make videos about journaling, that encouraged me so much to start!
I personally hate reading stream of consciousness writing. It (at least my own) feels awfully vapid, empty, and meaningless. I need to have some kind of direction when I write.
I started writing journal when I was 12 and I can't even read it now .. Because back then I was In a bad situation at school when I was constantly afraid someone would read it.. My kind of journal has totally changed since then.. Also, those unreadable journals I still keep cause they helped me so much during those times.. Even when I was only writing a sentence to describe every single hour passing hahaha .. I think writing your thoughts on specific things make you more conscious and comfortable of them so that's what I write
The one bit of journaling advice I always give is not to censor anything, however embarrassing it may seem at the time! I realised a few months ago that I wasn't writing about a crush I had on a friend of mine because I thought it would be too embarrassing to read back on, but now he's my boyfriend and I'm glad I have that record of when I was first falling for him :) also dream journals are fun :D
I have two different Journals. One, is for not every day, but at least once a week (since I do almost the same thing everyday). And then the second one, I write all my anxiety thoughts down on paper just to get all those thoughts I have outta my head. :)
+TheSimsGeeks I read once in a book where a girl had two journals: one for positive thoughts, one for negative thoughts. I think that's such a neat idea- I might try it!
Sadly I'm not journaling much this year as I did in the last 4 months of 2015. My journal is a mix of personal, art, smash book journal. Just a mash mash of everything. I used to find it hard to journal because I always wanted to keep a journal for one specific thing like art but now, Tommy current journal is everything in my life, art, doodles, sticking things in. I don't write everyday, personal entries are when something big happened or to just put my day in perspective. I don't feel obligated to write every day. Somethings I do are lists (todo lists, shopping lists, book lists etc) in between long pages of writing I do some art projects whether it's thought out or just doodles. I've started doing money joy favourites and write about new things I've discovered. As for prompts, there are groups on face books, there's Pinterest but personally, I'm not great with prompts because I end up completely forgetting things like prompt: songs that made you cry and my mind will go blank.
My journaling is more spontaneous and I like it like that. I journal when I can and there are so many ideas. I really should journal more as I've lacked motivation lately but I'll slowly get back into it.
I finally found a way to journal that works for me. Today is my fourth entry and im starting to notice how easy it´s getting to write things down (wish i know how to do this years ago), it´s getting so easy i even started crying, something that i haven´t done in a long time. Anyhow´s i was wondering, do you make this drafts before you write it down in your actual journal, bc that´s something that i find myself doing a lot. Perfectionist cons probably :P Anyways thank you so much for your video :)
+deborah nieuwpoort It definitely gets easier the more you do it! I just write stream of consciousness and let whatever I'm thinking come out without regards to editing it or making it perfect!
+Raquel Villatoro I understand that feeling. I'll often get ahead of myself or my hand will start hurting or i'll get too tired to continue before I can get everything out.
I have a journal with rings as well and ai was wondering if they don't bother you??? when you're writing on the left side don't the rings get in the way of your right hand??
Usually I rant about boys, I write about what i did during the day, i talk about my anxiety, or i do prompts. Is it okay that I do so much stuff in one book?
+Joy xoxo Absolutely! you could separate them out into other journals if you'd like, but I find I don't write as regularly if I have to put things elsewhere. The hodgepodge is definitely a good method ;)
+Alyssa Sheffield If you don't enjoy writing, then don't force yourself to :) Or, you could just do short entries every day. Try making a journal where you only do one entry per day/week, and keep it as brief as possible. Just one sentence about the day.
love your video. I have journals - but they are so pretty that I don't want to ruin them with my ugly writing. So, I guess I'm just a journal collector. lol. :)
kiwi galaxy yeah - I'm just terrible with my journals once I start writing in them - because I write everything in them and my writing is awful. But collecting pretty journals should be a thing too. lol :)
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Who just sits there too and watches videos about starting some things but always ends up never starting them? xD
Omg I do that all the time
Malina Koschier Me me me!!!..lol
I don't know why I watch so many journaling vids...I've been journaling for long enough to know exactly what I'm doing
Maria A. I watch dozens of them lately myself. I can never get too many ideas I guess.
Sameeeeee
Haha sameeee
Lol this is a mood
Relatable
I wish I had kept the journal I had in 7th and 8th grade. I wanted an older brother so bad (I'm the oldest so that never happened) so I wrote my journal as letters to my brother that I didn't have who was away in the Army. Every page started "Dear Fred.." Anyway one day I got home from school or somewhere and my sister (4 years younger) and her friends were laughing loudly in her room.. at my journal. Turns out she shipped around for it and found it and was reading it aloud to her friends. I was SO mad and embarrassed!! I'm sure I threatened to kill her and in fear of my thoughts being found by her again. I burned that journal in our wood stove and didn't keep another for a long time. I've started keeping them again and these are more journals I don't mind sharing rather than a diary like that old one. There's a lot of doodling and scrapbooking that goes on in my journals now. Just thought I'd share.
I think I have become addicted to journaling videos ever since you posted your first one. I had always loved to write stuff down so that I could remember what was going on and look back on smaller memories that might not be vivid years down the road. I haven't done much journaling yet, but I keep 2 at once. One that I use for my novel/story ideas and characters (and also dreams) and the other for just everything else.
I've really wanted to start making a journal video here and there to post on my channel, but I haven't been doing it long and I don't know if I should.
you totally should.
+Accio Books I'd love to see your journaling videos :D
A Darker Shade Of Whitney
same here
My journals are a bit of a public speaking aid for me. I'm home schooled, so due to a lack of social interaction, I'm not good at expressing my opinions. But with all this alone time to think about social and personal issues, my journals have become a place where I can write that stuff down so that, if ever moved to speak about such things, I know that all my important opinions have already been put into words and I can just loosely recite it off the top of my head without worrying :)
I so regret having gotten rid of my old journals. In my house people know no boundaries and I was "scared" they'd read my stuff.
I regret it. A lot.
In my earliest journal that I have, I mention a previous journal that I had beforehand and i'm so upset that I don't remember what I did with it. :/ I PROBABLY HAD A LOT OF GOOD GOSSIP IN THAT ONE
WhittyNovels Annoying, innit? I remember a couple of things that I wrote, but that is it. I had so many pages, so many thoughts... If I could go back in time I'd take them out of my past self's hands and slap myself too.
Maybe you are lucky and you'll find it one day. Let me know and share it with me =D
You made me pick up my journal after watching this video! I've been neglecting it for the past couple of months. So thanks!!!
+splitreads GO GO GO! (:
splitreads I
this inspired me to start journaling again! i don't know if i will, but my mom used to make me journal my day every single day when i was very young. it's fun to read it over and see how i used to think back then. i think because she made me chronicle my life, it made my writing better in some way, too.
+back then Yes, I highly recommend persuading young boys/girls to keep a diary. They will love it when they're older!
I sort of do journaling, but like, journaling in tweet format. I write really short entires in my Moleskine planner about my (mental) health, what I did that day, any inside jokes with friends we came up with that day, lists, thoughts, anything. I thought I didn't do journaling anymore but apparently I do. It's been a lot easier like this than writing 'dear diary' every day and having to like... put effort into it. :')
+Lauren Hannah Any length counts :)
Whenever I lose the motivation to journal, I watch this video and it helps me every single time. It just reminds me that I don't need to create anything other than what I want to, so thank you for the inspiration! :)
This is the first video about journaling that feels honest instead of forced pretty content that is aestheticly pleasing or something
can you do a video on keeping our Journals colorful and artsy and pretty?
For everyone I have a good idea use a random word generator and then write down what your think of and then what you think of about that etc
First off, I love your videos- I have for a while, pretty much since I started getting into the booktube community roughly a year ago, because you have always seemed so GENUINE, and I love it. You are the type of TH-camr who makes me wish we were friends rather than making me wish I was doing awesome cool wild things in my life for thousands of people to see. I always enjoy seeing your take on things!
Second, I really love your journaling videos!!! I've been journaling on and off since I was about 12 or 13 years old (so 10-11 years... that was a smack in the face to realize just now!) and it's something I absolutely love to do and encourage as many people as possible to do. Even though I am the definition of embarrassing and cringe-worthy in my 14-year-old-me journal, I would never get rid of it or trade it for anything!! My journals as I got older started containing more and more dark subject material as my mental health issues started to "blossom" (for lack of better phrasing), but again- I'd never get rid of them or trade them for anything, because they're mementos to me, that show me where I've been and how far I've come. Last week my dad was helping me clean and organize my room- he was mainly just giving me tips (because cleaning and organizing can really overwhelm me sometimes), but he was also in charge of arranging things that I handed him into a big tote bin so they'd fit better. He'd been advising me to get rid of anything I didn't need or want, and I'd already filled up a trash bag of stuff I felt I could do without. So I handed him my 14-year-old-me journal, and he asked what it was, and I told him it was one of my old journals. He started questioning whether I really wanted/needed to keep it and I was so shocked at the suggestion that I would ever get rid of one of my journals! I said "Why? It's one of my journals", to which he responded with something about what if one day my husband or kids were to find it and read it? But my thing is... so what if my hypothetical future family were to read my old journals? Ideally at that point I wouldn't be hiding things from them, right? So it wouldn't even matter, what they read!
My point in rambling on for so long was really just to tell you that I think you and your videos are wonderful, and that I'm glad to have found some solidarity in journal-loving. I'm so sorry this turned into a huge ramble but it's 6:11am and I haven't slept yet so I'm kind of delirious :P I hope you have a great day and that I didn't weird you out a ton!
Iove journals! Really the best advice is everything counts. When I look back in my journals I'm just so happy to remember things I've forgotten about. Subjects I hated, how I felt in class, etc.
+B.F. Simone Exactly! I think the coolest thing is writing down tiny, tiny details that I know i'll never remember in the future. Even the smallest things like the pattern on your bedspread or which desk you sat in at school would trigger so many memories when i'm older.
+WhittyNovels it soooo does! I've even started a new book based off of some of those memories. It brought such a unique look I'd completely forgot abou
But sometimes I think about something over and over again, are you not afraid of repeating yourself in your journals? I'm so happy you do these videos
+giantchanyeol I've never thought of that before! i'm sure i talk about the same topics over and over but usually when I discuss something it means I want to get it off my chest, so it never FEELS repetitive :)
+giantchanyeol I do this in all of life, i started a blog, i go to write a topic and I'm like no, no one wants to hear about this or half of this blog is just repeating it's self, I think if its on your mind and you want to write about it just do it, try to kill that inner critic and just write, I'm sure when you come back and read the journal or what ever you'll realize it's probably not repeating its self as much as you think it is and as well as that, even if it is, the perspective of which you are writing, is probably never the same.
I love my journal! I've had it since March 2014 but didn't start writing in it daily till Sept 2015. it's full of pictures, quotes, lists, receipts, drawings, rants, and pressed flowers! I agreed with you this entire video. my journal always starts with one topic but usually ends with my talking/complaining about something else! I can't get into prompts but if nothing happened and I want to journal I go to pinterest and find quotes or drawings and put my spin on them! I really can't wait to see a flip through of your current journal!! xoxo 💙😊📚
+niicolereads Yours sounds so neat!!!
This is awesome girl! With social media it seems that writing things on paper is a lost art. I want to upload a journaling video now! AND Embrace being single! every stage of life is amazing
Nikki Badders oh yeah!
I made many journals since childhood cause I always got excited, wrote a few entries and then lost interest. Than I would start another and the cycle repeated. I have my last journal for a year almost and I decided to not abandon this one till I finish it, even if it's in 10 years. I rarely write about my day or what I did, but I try to put somethimg in whenever I feel some very strong emotion. Since that doesn't happen much, sometimes I write once in 2 months. But I don't want to push it. The main thing is for it to not feel as some mandatory homework or sthg.
You mentioned starting a quote journal and I highly highly recommend it! I've had one going for about two years now. Basically, once I'm finished a book I take all the quotes I liked and add them in (plus a few quotes that I see from celebrities or friends or something like that) It's really cool having a whole source of all these quotes you like and I love flipping through it to see them all. It's especially a good pick me up on a bad day weirdly enough. I actually even started a quotes series on my channel where I just read quotes from books that I wrote down. Hope you make one!
+brynnsbookshelf Aw that's so nice! I've been getting really into calligraphy lately so I might start a calligraphy/quote journal (:
Your video was very helpful..I use to journal in high school..and after I started working I just didn't have the time...and I've been trying to start again...but all these videos about planners and journals and drawing your life..has overwhelmed me. Your video has really made is clear to me on how to start back. Thank you.
Awesome video! Its because of your videos and journal flip throughs that I was able to realize how journaling can be a creative fun thing. I'd journaled a lot as a child, but after my mom constantly reading it behind my back and it actually getting stolen at school I stopped. So thank you so much for your awesome videos and cute personality.
my problem is whenever I try to talk about something in my journal, I can't explain myself properly 😂😂
I am loving all the journal videos! I have a many decade history of journaling so it's really interesting to me to see so many people keeping journals and how you all do it. I wish, though, that I could find a wider age range of journal keepers. I'm wondering how much other people's journals have changed as they get older. If you or any of your subscribers know of journal videos from people in their 30's or older (or would be interested in a collab), please let me know!
I just randomly re-watched one of your old journaling videos, which I LOVE, and thought "I wish she'd do another one of these!"... and then I saw this on my subscribers feed! YAY! You have really inspired me to journal ever since that first video!!!
+Cami Agui Hahaha, great timing!
This video was very helpful. I keep a ton of journals but lately I've just been keeping a writing inspirations list and this video gave me some more ideas so hopefully I can start writing more frequently!
I used to journal every single day since I was 8. Then I went to university and just stopped. I kind of want to start again but then I keep second guessing myself because there would be a 2 year gap in the journal and I feel like it would annoy me... Like so much has changed since then so it would be weird... Idk... maybe I'll start in the summer again.
+Jay G (TheAwkwardBookworm) That's what happened to my first journal. I would post in it maybe once a year, and that was for about 5 years until I finally started writing regularly. I think it's actually cool to write with huge gaps in between! It shows the honesty of how you lost interest for a while.
Thank you, Whitney, for being my journaling inspiration. I started my first creative journal last summer because of you and your videos. I'm currently working on my 5th journal now. I really do appreciate you so much and I love you a lot. ❤
I primarily use my journal as more of a diary than anything else, and since I don't really do a lot, or go out a lot, I don't often write in it. I Actually only started it about a year and half or so ago because I was reading a book I was really into, and I was having all these feelings because of where I was and I just really had this overwhelming urge to write once I got home from my job that day. My job was a source of a ton of stress, so I mostly wrote about that often, but I also CONSTANTLY wrote about whatever book I was reading at the time. So many journal entries about Rose Hathaway from Vampire Academy. Lol.
I wasn't very consistent with it, and I'm still not, but I've been trying to write in it more lately. It's just, there's so little for me to talk about because my life is super uneventful, and I don't really want to write about every little thing I do when I'm at home because it's not that interesting. However, I think just after typing this comment and watching this video, I have an idea of something I can try to be more consistent without getting bored with what I write about, so I'm actually super happy I watched this video now.
As much as I want to journal, I've always had trouble finishing what I've started (in like... All parts of my life) and I have soooo many unfinished journals. I'd start out trying to journal every day and then it'd get less and less until I gave up. And then I'd restart in a new journal. Right now, I'm doing Q&A a day and it's going well so far. And I also found this "642 Things to write (about me)" (not sure that the number 642 is correct, but oh well) and it's not necessarily a typical journal but the prompts give me interesting topics to write about and encourage creativity, so I'm really liking that right now.
+Kristen BOOKS (Kristen Bright) Great things about unfinished things is that they're always there to come back too
+Kristen BOOKS (Kristen Bright) I always did that- I would do one entry then forget/never finish. But just choose one and keep writing and keep writing, no matter how much time passes in between! Eventually it will become more regular!
Who don't have to do it every day just when you feel like it or have time
One thing I write about is how awesome I think other people's journals are. I watch flip throughs on TH-cam all the time because I like to see how other people journal, as opposed to how I do it. I just recently started doing journal videos, and I might do a flip through soon, just because I love it so much to watch other peoples' journaling videos and flip throughs.
i just discovered one of your flip thru videos few days ago and thank you very much for you've inspired me a lot. I MEAN, A LOT. you're adorable as your journals, whitney! my resolution this year is to improve my writing and i believe journaling will help me work on that and it's really fun to watch your journaling videos istg!!!! i love the way you talk and the stuffs you put in your journal. you're completely right that it doesnt have to look perfect and artsy for the thought or its content matter more. keep on doing these lovely things, dear. :))))
You are an amazing girl. Right when I just have lost my motivation you helped me find it back again. I'm journaling too, but haven't done it in few days.... But now I have too many ideas and not enough notebooks lol. Thank you :)
Thanks so much for helping me start journaling! I hate my handwriting and I get tired of writing by hand, so I always thought I couldn't start a journal. I started in september because of your videos. I've already filled a journal and I'm on my second journal! my journals have lots of stickers and lists but i really like them. thanks for inspiring me!
+BubblyBookNerd Omg that's amazing news! I'm glad you like it, I think it's so much fun :D
I saw some of your old journaling videos and got super pumped for journaling. So thank you for being a source of inspiration.
+Beautiful Books Thanks for watching :D
I love you soooooooooo much. I'm pretty young... So I see you as an inspiration. As a fellow book lover, I love your book reviews, and as crafty as I am, I love your journaling videos. I just wanted to say thank you for making me happy. ♥️
I holler every time you post a journaling video
+Mallory Stanley same
Yay, thanks for this!! Your journal vids are some of my faves!!
+kbooknook Thanks for watching
I love your shirt and braid! I just started a journal because of you and this video. I just wrote my first journal entry and I feel great so thank you!
+ThePrincessOfReading Thank you!! So glad I inspired you to start!
I was so unsure what to write about until I watched this!Thanks!
Write about what's happening in your life, how many subscribers you have, yeah!
Some very great tips, I totally follow them as well with my own journaling! I will do a blogpost on journaling as well!
I'm so glad you make videos about journaling, that encouraged me so much to start!
+BetweenLinesAndLife Yaayy, spread the journaling love (:
YOUR JOURNAL VIDEOS ARE MY FAAAAAAVE!
+Margaret Gates AW YAAYYYY!! It makes me so happy, I didn't know if anyone would care when I posted the first one!
+WhittyNovels well you were wrong ;) ily ❤️
IM SO EXCITED YOUR JOURNALING VIDS ARE MY FAV!!!
+laurenthoughh THANKS FOR WATCHING
I love you.
You're awesome.
I look up to you.
Your makeup is on point in this vid
This was soooo helpful , I just started my journal and didn’t really know what to write about so I am glad I found this video 🙃🙂👍
I personally hate reading stream of consciousness writing. It (at least my own) feels awfully vapid, empty, and meaningless. I need to have some kind of direction when I write.
This was super helpful, thank you!
+Bone Paper Folders Thanks for watching!
I luv ur videos, they are so different than others youtubers... ur stuff is actually meaningful
I have just started a journal because you made it sound so fun :)
+OhHelloSorry YAAYYYY!
I love your journaling videos! They are so inspiring, YOU are so inspiring 💕
Thank you for these videos :) they have really inspired me :)
I started writing journal when I was 12 and I can't even read it now .. Because back then I was In a bad situation at school when I was constantly afraid someone would read it.. My kind of journal has totally changed since then.. Also, those unreadable journals I still keep cause they helped me so much during those times.. Even when I was only writing a sentence to describe every single hour passing hahaha .. I think writing your thoughts on specific things make you more conscious and comfortable of them so that's what I write
+Hanna Bella Yeah my middle school journal is pretty embarrassing...
The one bit of journaling advice I always give is not to censor anything, however embarrassing it may seem at the time! I realised a few months ago that I wasn't writing about a crush I had on a friend of mine because I thought it would be too embarrassing to read back on, but now he's my boyfriend and I'm glad I have that record of when I was first falling for him :) also dream journals are fun :D
I have two different Journals. One, is for not every day, but at least once a week (since I do almost the same thing everyday). And then the second one, I write all my anxiety thoughts down on paper just to get all those thoughts I have outta my head. :)
+TheSimsGeeks I read once in a book where a girl had two journals: one for positive thoughts, one for negative thoughts. I think that's such a neat idea- I might try it!
love your videos. journaling has been recommened by a old counslor
Fantastic video, I'm trying to get into journaling and it's pretty hard but I'll get there
loved your ideas! I have a journal flip through that I'd love you to watch :)
+Zakiya Taylor I LOVE JOURNAL FLIPTHROUGHS! I'll go see :D
Totally doing the things list
I wish I could still get the journaling sticker prompts....
"here's some to-do list, using lots of colors just to make myself more excited about life." I AM A CHANGED PERSON, TRULY.
Did you read my mind haha I was searching yesterday on how to keep a journal haha xD
+Alexia Stylianou LOL I actually am telepathic ;)
Sadly I'm not journaling much this year as I did in the last 4 months of 2015. My journal is a mix of personal, art, smash book journal. Just a mash mash of everything. I used to find it hard to journal because I always wanted to keep a journal for one specific thing like art but now, Tommy current journal is everything in my life, art, doodles, sticking things in. I don't write everyday, personal entries are when something big happened or to just put my day in perspective. I don't feel obligated to write every day. Somethings I do are lists (todo lists, shopping lists, book lists etc) in between long pages of writing I do some art projects whether it's thought out or just doodles. I've started doing money joy favourites and write about new things I've discovered. As for prompts, there are groups on face books, there's Pinterest but personally, I'm not great with prompts because I end up completely forgetting things like prompt: songs that made you cry and my mind will go blank.
My journaling is more spontaneous and I like it like that. I journal when I can and there are so many ideas. I really should journal more as I've lacked motivation lately but I'll slowly get back into it.
+misszully03 I love you journaling style! Keep doing you :)
Be very interesting to know what the ideas are that might not go down well on-line. For the ultimate journals though see da Vinci.
+mothman2 mostly just unkind opinions about people and rants about authority and politics lol
I have the tendency to start writing what I think but I can't write down exactly what I think so it's so hard to not cross things out.
Try to cross things out in a way that you can still read what you were going to say so it's not like you're censoring yourself.
I finally found a way to journal that works for me. Today is my fourth entry and im starting to notice how easy it´s getting to write things down (wish i know how to do this years ago), it´s getting so easy i even started crying, something that i haven´t done in a long time. Anyhow´s i was wondering, do you make this drafts before you write it down in your actual journal, bc that´s something that i find myself doing a lot. Perfectionist cons probably :P Anyways thank you so much for your video :)
+deborah nieuwpoort It definitely gets easier the more you do it! I just write stream of consciousness and let whatever I'm thinking come out without regards to editing it or making it perfect!
I'm journaling 1 month daily now. Never had that's I didn't know what I should wrote
Lauren And The Books.... check her out if you don't know her already. fun personality.
Could you post more in your journal tag please. It's been eight minutes and I've already went through it completely
+The NY Belle Try going through the journaling tag on tumblr and instagram!
Thank you for the advice, very nice video..
More journal videos plsssssss
when I journal I write about things that are occupying my head and I try to write what I'm thinking but my thoughts go faster
+Raquel Villatoro I understand that feeling. I'll often get ahead of myself or my hand will start hurting or i'll get too tired to continue before I can get everything out.
Thank you for doing these videos! I would love to see your current Journal! It looks awesome! Where did you get it from?
+Helena Brugger I got that as a gift, actually! But I think it's from Barnes & Noble.
yaaaayyy journal vid 🐢
+Caoimhe :) :)
I think you are gorgeous. And I love your personality. I don't know, you remind me of Lorelai from Gilmore Girls :D
I love your journaling videos!!
I have a journal with rings as well and ai was wondering if they don't bother you??? when you're writing on the left side don't the rings get in the way of your right hand??
+iara I prop up the left side when I have to write on it in order to level it out and my hand won't bump into it!
yo we have the same current journal !!
+Morgan Williams AYYYYYY
Love your videos so much! Especially these!!😊 I'm a pretty new subscriber to your channel and they make me happy every time i watch them!!💕
+Heythereitsmaddie 02 Aw thanks for subscribing :')
+WhittyNovels No problem😋
thank you this helped me so much couldn't find a good video, then I found this 😀😀😀
Usually I rant about boys, I write about what i did during the day, i talk about my anxiety, or i do prompts. Is it okay that I do so much stuff in one book?
+Joy xoxo Absolutely! you could separate them out into other journals if you'd like, but I find I don't write as regularly if I have to put things elsewhere. The hodgepodge is definitely a good method ;)
Thanks so much for replying! I love your videos, and I feel better now!
Thank you for this video!!
+Maite Tab Thanks for watching!
I always try to write in a journal but 5 seconds in I get bored. Advice?
+Alyssa Sheffield If you don't enjoy writing, then don't force yourself to :)
Or, you could just do short entries every day. Try making a journal where you only do one entry per day/week, and keep it as brief as possible. Just one sentence about the day.
having writers block is never fun. sometimes it takes a little time to have it pass.
+Belushi87 Great thing about journaling is that when you run out of ideas, you can just doodle or write down song lyrics.
Is it acceptable to write multiple entries on the same day? Im a newbie journaler📖
love your video. I have journals - but they are so pretty that I don't want to ruin them with my ugly writing. So, I guess I'm just a journal collector. lol. :)
hahaha same I barely journal I try to but I'm obsessed with hoarding journals bc they are so pretty lol
kiwi galaxy
yeah - I'm just terrible with my journals once I start writing in them - because I write everything in them and my writing is awful. But collecting pretty journals should be a thing too. lol :)
+The Reading Puppet I hated my handwriting too, but the more I did it, the less I cared! I just wanted to talk!
I love you a lot...and keep up with the great work...I subscribed seeing the videos I've always wanted people to make
Love your videos...I just subscribed :)
Can we write a daily journal
I journal and everyone calls it a diary....
where do you get your notebooks and journals?
+Tyler Swint It depends on the notebook! Is there one in particular you're wondering about?
l didn't. understand anything about what you say.
i'm sorry! i'm working on captioning my videos so that you can turn on subtitles next time :)
WhittyNovels thanks love you 😘
How did you lose soo much weight if I may ask 🙈??