What is a diary?
A diary is a personal story that tells about what one is feeling or wants to write about. This is usually very private and very emotional but sometimes it just tells about what happened during the day.
How to write a diary
There are no real steps to writing a diary. There are no boundaries except these guidelines to writing a diary...
It doesn't have to be personal, for it's your diary, but mostly in diaries, there are some personal stuff. Diaries are daily "journals" explaining your feeling for the day,what happened during the day, or any other topic of your choice.
It doesn't have to be personal, for it's your diary, but mostly in diaries, there are some personal stuff. Diaries are daily "journals" explaining your feeling for the day,what happened during the day, or any other topic of your choice.
Example
[I reckon I usually get up at about half past nine, in time for a lecture at ten.
Lectures are not compulsory, so it is extremely tempting to stay asleep, but it
isn't really advisable. They do turn out to be very useful. ]
After lectures, I spend half an hour or so chasing books around the faculty
library and swearing under my breath at the complicated but probably necessary
shelving system. [I then return to College feeling as though I have done a solid
morning's work when actually I have done nothing at all.]
I spend far more time than I should having lunch in the bar, chatting to
whoever happens to be there, doing the cross-word and putting music on the juke
box.
[The bar shuts at three, and by that time I have realized that if I don't do
at least five hours solid work then I will have to stay up all night trying to
work out what philosophy actually is.] At this point I adjourn either to my room
or to the library to do some serious arranging of paper, making of tea and
staring at the floor before finally (finally) getting some work done.
The most dangerous period of the day comes at about 5pm. It is after about
two hours work that I begin to think of all the pressing, un-work related things
that I have to do, like going to Sainsbury's or doing my washing - an event that
only occurs when I have an essay deadline in the next twenty-four hours.
However, if I can get through the 5pm barrier I will work for another couple of
hours and then make myself supper- I do most of my own cooking.
I quite often cook for other people as well. If this is the case, then I
provide the food, they provide the alcohol, and we drink that before proceeding
to the bar to continue there, from whence to someone's room , or to one of
Cambridge's other delightful venues.
I am often involved in some kind of production or other, in which case some
of my evening will invariably be spent in rehearsals.
Lectures are not compulsory, so it is extremely tempting to stay asleep, but it
isn't really advisable. They do turn out to be very useful. ]
After lectures, I spend half an hour or so chasing books around the faculty
library and swearing under my breath at the complicated but probably necessary
shelving system. [I then return to College feeling as though I have done a solid
morning's work when actually I have done nothing at all.]
I spend far more time than I should having lunch in the bar, chatting to
whoever happens to be there, doing the cross-word and putting music on the juke
box.
[The bar shuts at three, and by that time I have realized that if I don't do
at least five hours solid work then I will have to stay up all night trying to
work out what philosophy actually is.] At this point I adjourn either to my room
or to the library to do some serious arranging of paper, making of tea and
staring at the floor before finally (finally) getting some work done.
The most dangerous period of the day comes at about 5pm. It is after about
two hours work that I begin to think of all the pressing, un-work related things
that I have to do, like going to Sainsbury's or doing my washing - an event that
only occurs when I have an essay deadline in the next twenty-four hours.
However, if I can get through the 5pm barrier I will work for another couple of
hours and then make myself supper- I do most of my own cooking.
I quite often cook for other people as well. If this is the case, then I
provide the food, they provide the alcohol, and we drink that before proceeding
to the bar to continue there, from whence to someone's room , or to one of
Cambridge's other delightful venues.
I am often involved in some kind of production or other, in which case some
of my evening will invariably be spent in rehearsals.
Annotation
The bracketed text shows elements of a diary such as first person point of view and personal opinion.
Analogy
Diary is to private as memoir is to public
explanation
What makes this a diary is the lot of opinion and the first person point of view. Over elements such as the privacy also contribute to making it a diary.