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This journal is intended to help me exercise my memory by writing things down as I recall them. It's entirely a personal exercise; I'm not sure why it felt important to keep it online. And it did; specifically, it felt important to keep this journal online, in a place where anybody could hypothetically read it, but probably won't. I think I want the possibility of an audience to motivate my writing, but I also don't expect this to have much appeal to anybody but myself. Some of my memories might be interesting, but I'm going to be trying to write down whatever mundane details and moments I can. Honestly, if significant thoughts come up in the moment, I will probably just go ahead and interrupt myself with a different side bit. (Also, some of this might end up being pretty personal. We'll see what happens.)

Speaking of which, I'm starting to think that one of the problems I've always had with journaling is that I feel like I'm trying to write in a particularly literary style, which doesn't seem like the point. I'll need to play around with styles and see what I vibe with.

This journal also has a couple of secondary goals attached to it. First of all, I imagine this as a way to get back into the practice of writing. Before I dive into stories I really want to be telling, it would probably help to just ... write for a while. Second, it occurred to me that if I'm feeling it, I could also use this as a more traditional journal; not just write down months- or years-old memories like I'd originally imagined, and also note down experiences as they're happening, or soon after. We'll see where this goes.

And if this turns out to be the only post ever added to this journal ... well, I guess I forgot.