journaling and blogging: friends or foes?

So why not start out a blog about journaling by writing a little journal entry?

You may think journaling is for nerds. Well, yes, you're right. It's for nerds and jocks and prom queens and cat ladies. It's for children and adults, men and women, girls who wear glasses and work at libraries...but I digress.

If blogging is acceptable, and even fun and cool to do nowadays, then journaling, by definition is, too. They're the same thing. Well, they could be. It just depends what you want to get off your mind.

And that's the beauty of journaling: you can say just whatever it is you want to say without anyone judging you for not capitalizing that proper noun or dividing that run-on with a period. You can leave in as many mistakes as you want to without a red-pen-wielding English teacher ravaging it to shreds.

The only difference that I can come up with between traditional journaling and blogging is that the latter is a public forum: everyone can read what you wrote. Whereas in traditional journaling, you better not even try to look at my precious book of secrets. Unless of course, you publish said journal. Then go right ahead. But that's a topic for another journal entry/blog post.

By the way, did you know that journaling isn't a word? I coined it right now.
Don't be jealous, Shakespeare.