3:33 p.m. - 2004-05-25
fulfilled
FULFILLED!
Hmmmm.
Well, first of all, your journal reminds me a lot of mine in terms of length. You have abut 13338542 entries that you've been keeping for 3 years now, and a lot of the entries are long, long, long. It's hard to review something like that. I feel bad for people who review me now.
Also, I had that template for about 3 minutes on my diary, but I don't think I'm a huge fan. I don't like how the links are in italics, I think. I dunno.. I like it, but.. I don't so much.
Now, try as I might, I never got into your journal. I read many entries, skipping around the years to see if your entries differed at all, if you grew or what not. And I'm sorry to say that there was probably only two or three entries that I read all the way through. Your content just didn't really interest me at all. I hate to bring out the B word, but here it is: I was BORED.
A good example of your writing style is this one, a recent entry that talks about going to the gym, your bank card not working, and buying stuff on sale. Now, that might be important to you, but the rest of us could probably live without all those details. This one is another example of an entry that I just couldn't get into. I thik what it is is that you put so much detail into every entry that it just kinda gets crowded. And not really a good crowded, but a "Did we really need to know all that?" kind of crowded.
I mean, you write very intelligently and I'm not questioning your skills, but you aren't using those skills to your best ability. I want story-telling and creativeness, not just a dull "This is what happened, exactly how it happened, with nothing to set it apart from what happened yesterday."
You know?
Your earlier entries were much more interesting, but then again, so were mine. It happens. We have less stuff to worry about, and then as we grow up we start having to actually be in the real world and our entries get way less interesting.
I don't really have any advice as you've had your diary for so long that you don't really need my advice. Just keep doing what you're doing if it works for you, but for me, it just didn't captivate me.
I give you a shrug and some cheetos.
