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The running updates of online diarists combined with links inspired the term 'weblog' which was eventually contracted to form the word 'blog'. In online diaries, people write about their day-to-day experiences, social commentary, complaints, poems, prose, illicit thoughts and any content that might be found in a traditional paper diary or journal.
A Book of One's Own: People and their diaries by Thomas Mallon, 1984. The Journal Book, edited by Toby Fulwiler, 1987. (Collection of essays on using journals in K12 classrooms.) Journal to the Self: twenty-two paths to personal growth by Kathleen Adams, 1990. A Voice of Her Own: Women and the Journal-Writing Journey by Marlene A. Schiwy, 1996.
This is a list of fictional diaries categorized by type, including fictional works in diary form, diaries appearing in fictional works, and hoax diaries. The first category, fictional works in diary form, lists fictional works where the story, or a major part of the story, is told in the form of a character's diary. [ 1 ]
Emily Pepys (1833–1877), English child diarist (diary 1844–1845) Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), English civil servant (diary 1660–1669) Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (1716–1776), English peeress; Calel Perechodnik (1916–1944), Polish Jewish ghetto policeman and Holocaust victim; Diane Pernet (living), Paris-based American ...
The word "journal" may be sometimes used for "diary," but generally a diary has (or intends to have) daily entries (from the Latin word for 'day'), whereas journal-writing can be less frequent. Although a diary may provide information for a memoir , autobiography or biography , it is generally written not with the intention of being published ...
The diary, a handwritten journal that eschews the first person, is composed of entries dated in 1973, 1975 and (in the extended edition) 1981. The entries touch on favorite Krishnamurti topics like meditation, the dangerous effects of identification and of conditioned thinking, and the need for radical individual psychological reset.
Penzu is a private online diary-hosting website. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Users can create written entries similar to a standard personal journal and can also upload photos from their devices. [ 3 ] Penzu uses a freemium business model with special paid features including unique fonts, AES encryption , rich text formatting, and others.
12 volume diary. [24] Jean Lucey Pratt: 1 million: 61 years: 1925–1986: Over a million words in 45 exercise books. [25] Ernest Achey Loftus: Unknown: 91 years: 1896–1987: Guinness World Record for longest kept diary. [26] [27] Caroline Bray: Unknown: 87 years: 1815–1902: Née Hennell; she was the intimate friend of George Eliot. Diary and ...