![\"Dear](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Depositphotos_49060173_s-2015_Diary.jpg?resize=207%2C138&ssl=1\")
met (met again, actually) the younger version of the man I married, I let Dear Diary know first. It was really a great thing to do.<\/p>\nWhen I was growing up, I kept a diary all the time. It held all of my dreams, wishes, fondest hopes. If I had a great idea, I recorded it faithfully. When I met (met again, actually) the younger version of the man I married, I let Dear Diary know first. It was really a great thing to do.<\/p>\n
So why have I been so stupid as not to keep up the habit??? As I said, when I was growing up<\/em>\u00a0I kept a diary. Once I grew up I forgot how intelligent a girl I’d been. I’ve tried now and then to keep story ideas in a notebook or even jot a reminder of some great dialogue or character traits, but the good intention lasts less time than my diet plans after New Read the next blog in the blog hop by going here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dee<\/a> When I was growing up, I kept a diary all the time. It held all of my dreams, wishes, fondest hopes. If I had a great idea, I recorded it faithfully. When I met (met again, actually) the younger version of the man I married, I let Dear Diary know first. It was really a … Continue reading “Keeping a Journal #MFRWauthor”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,69,67,68],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-diary","tag-good-habits","tag-journal","tag-keeping-track"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wA33-41","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Keeping](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Depositphotos_179708548_s-2015_Writing.jpg?resize=240%2C160&ssl=1\")
Years. Like writing every day, I need to develop the habit of keeping a journal (“journal” sounds so much more mature than “diary”). Where is that Kick-Me-in-the-Butt machine I need to remind me of good habits to form?<\/p>\n
\nNaval Maneuvers<\/a> When a woman requires an earth-shattering crush of pleasure to carry her away, she can’t do better than to call on the US Navy. Sorry, Marines!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"