Starting a Diary

[Arrakna]

I have planned and tried to create sci-fi stories and failed, for some reason I just can't seem to keep focused when writing or doing work on them. But I have decided to start a diary, just because it seems like a good thing to do to log things which are going on and maybe even look back on them for inspiration later on.

But I was wondering, perhaps a diary format would suit me better than a novel (for now at least, anyway), but I was wondering if you could really write a diary and put it forwards as a serious piece of literature, but I wasn't sure due to the fact that I am not famous or writing about any massive historic event in general, but I was thinking that perhaps writing about daily life can inspire thoughts and philosophies of my own which may, themselves add to the interest of reading a diary.

I was also thinking, if this would be the case and getting people to read a diary from an essential "nobody", would there be strict rules on how I should write, if any? Or should it just depend on the mood that I am in seeing as that is part of what a diary is about.

Thanks for reading/replying.

[blazeofglory]

I have planned and tried to create sci-fi stories and failed, for some reason I just can't seem to keep focused when writing or doing work on them. But I have decided to start a diary, just because it seems like a good thing to do to log things which are going on and maybe even look back on them for inspiration later on.

But I was wondering, perhaps a diary format would suit me better than a novel (for now at least, anyway), but I was wondering if you could really write a diary and put it forwards as a serious piece of literature, but I wasn't sure due to the fact that I am not famous or writing about any massive historic event in general, but I was thinking that perhaps writing about daily life can inspire thoughts and philosophies of my own which may, themselves add to the interest of reading a diary.

I was also thinking, if this would be the case and getting people to read a diary from an essential "nobody", would there be strict rules on how I should write, if any? Or should it just depend on the mood that I am in seeing as that is part of what a diary is about.

Thanks for reading/replying.

This is really a good ideas, and it will yield results.

[Hayley Zero]

I'd love reading a well written, personal diary. For example, I read quite a few weblog's of people who write about small details in their personal life in a poetic way. I think it has something to do with a mix of voyerism and identification. Personally, I always rather read something about the life of a 'nobody' than about the life of someone Very Important.

I myself haven't written fiction in over two years, but I still write about my own life and some day I hope that'll inspire me to write something I can show to other people again.

I'd say, go for it, write!