Yesterday was such a nothing day, neither good nor bad, that when I sat down last night to write in my five year journal and my regular journal, I was stumped!

I only have to write five little lines in my five year journal, but all I could write was about the fact that I had nothing to write about.

I answered some really old e-mail! I went through the OP queue and added some more journals to the ring! I watched Anjelica Houston on Inside the Actors Studio! I...see what I mean?

There's a lively discussion on Diary L about journal plagiarism.

It seems some girl is copying entries wholesale from (at least) two other sites; I peeked in on the off chance that there was something of mine, but it was literally the most revolting thing I have ever seen (I'm telling you, I thank God every day that I disabled my midi-listener-thingy, to use the scientific term, immediately after hearing my first embedded midi) so I only lasted about four seconds.

To quote The Journalist That Must Not Be Named (not "Shall"), "Frankly, there's only so much I'm willing to endure to see if someone has stolen from me."

It's funny to think of plagiarizing journal entries. Someone wrote me once saying that my life must be very empty for me to need to keep an on-line journal, but just think how empty one's life would have to be to need to copy one!

And yes, someone on the list mentioned something about not having a life, but I don't remember who and I was thinking of it first, so the above is NOT PLAGIARISM!!

A while back I was exchanging e-mail with another journalist on the subject of writing only when one is inspired and writing no matter what, and I thought I'd reprint here my thoughts on the subject, because I think I worked it out pretty well for myself, and besides, I don't mind plagiarizing myself!

"Well, I COULD find that insulting...but I know you weren't being so purposely! All I need is to do or think of four things every day, and then write about them, and it is a rare day where I don't do or think about four things! But if I do or think about six things, I can save two for when I'm short some day.

There are two ways of writing, there's writing to a set schedule and there's writing only when inspired, and honestly if I waited for inspiration to strike I probably would write just about as often as I do now! I'm always buttonholing people and telling them my anecdotes, and the journal is just another version of that! And since I have put myself in a position to come up with four anecdotes a day, I find that I don't have to strain to recognize them--they are right there because I need them. I don't work well without a deadline."

Seraph, what the heck is your e-mail address now that katchoo is no more? If you don't tell me, I'll tell everyone your name!!

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