Elizabeth December 4th, 2006

2006 was the year that I successfully kept a journal. It’s something that I’ve wanted to do from the time I was about 6 years old, but I never had the discipline to keep at it. The perfectionist in me was probably most to blame for failing, because any sign of slacking up just caused me to wave the white flag. I have so many beautiful journals that were abandoned 20 pages in.

Embodiment is a project that was started by Crissy of dearcrissy.com. It is a community of people who have resolved to write in a paper journal once a day for a year, and was a wonderful source of inspiration for me. Members discuss their progress, offer writing prompts and suggestions, post scans or photos of their journal pages and so on. There are many very talented visual journal-writers in the community, which always makes for eye-catching posts, but I’d say that the majority are text-only or text-mainly people. Of course, you’re not required to post your stuff or contribute in any way – but if you’re somebody who has always wanted to keep a journal, or improve your journal-writing habits, you’ll find it to be full of people just like yourself.

Membership was opened on December 1st, for one month. After that time you are able to read public posts, but you can’t actually contribute. You need to have a livejournal account to join and participate, but accounts are free and full of other great sources of inspiration (and procrastination).

Here are a few scans from my journals this year:

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