Some reflections on journaling by hand every day for 8.5 years (and counting)

and on writing in general

Some reflections on journaling by hand every day for 8.5 years (and counting) and on writing in general Carmen Jan 30, 2025 227 19 41 Share Cross-posted from Twitter , where I originally posted it in June 2024. I'm getting better at putting my stuff on Substack now, so I want to make sure it’s here as well for people who recently started following. As of the time of this repost, I’ve passed over 9 years of daily journaling and am even working on scanning them all . I’m doing this for digital back-up reasons and also because I want to feed all the entries into AI and see how good it is at thera

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