Q&A for How to Fill the First Page of Your Diary

You can always do what Anne Frank did, and give your diary a name, such as Kitty or Puppy. You could also call it: Future Self, Lovely SK (secret-keeper), Lover (because they know you best and do not take advantage of it or judge you), etc.

Write about: Dreams, what happened that day, stories, book reviews, family, friends, recipes, thoughts, feelings, siblings, secrets, hopes, crushes, goals met, goals you want to meet, etc.

Add some pictures, drawings, and stickers to the cover and inside pages. If you have glitter glue pens, you could use those as well! Lastly, you can always use metallic or glitter gel pens to write in your diary. For more ideas, check out How to Decorate a Diary .

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If you like to keep your thoughts on paper, that's a good reason. But really, only you can reach a conclusion that it's something you want to keep and what use it could be to you.

It's not strange to write "Dear Diary," at all! You don't even have to write "Dear Diary" at all, especially if it does not suit you. You can make up your own saying to use instead. You can even use a new saying every day to make you diary more interesting.

Any age at all! Some people prefer to start a diary when they're younger; this is so they can have more ideas of what they used to be like during their childhoods.

It depends. Writing in an iPad or on a phone is convenient, but many people like the tradition of writing on paper.

Yes. It helps. The first day of the year gives you a fresh start for a diary. You can state your hopes and goals for the year.

Tell them it's just a story you're making up and you're using the names of real people from your life because you thought it would be more fun that way.

If you share a bedroom with someone, try writing when your roommate has left the room. You could also sit outside and write or go to the library if you need a quiet place to think.

No. It's totally up to you, just choose a diary that seems like it would be comfortable to write in, and if you know you'll write in it a lot, choose one with a lot of pages.

Do not tell anyone about it! Keep it in a place only you know. Do not leave it in any place where anyone would be able to find it, otherwise keep it with you at all times.

Bye!! -Name/Signature; Bye Diary! -Name/Signature; Well, I have to go now! Bye! -Name/Signature; I hope tomorrow is better! -Name/Signature; Bye for now! -Name/Signature; Signing off -Name/Signature

Yes, as it's your diary.

It is your choice. Pencil allows you to correct any mistakes, but ink lasts longer.

With anything you like. You could try things like glitter, flowers, beads, stickers, ribbon or decorative tape.

It's up to you. If you want to keep writing, go ahead. You may want to find a better place to hide it, or if you want, get a new diary to write in and keep this one around so they think the old one is still your diary.

Get an app for reminders, or set an alarm for the same time every day and write in it at that time. You don't have to write a lot, just jot something down if you don't have much time. Once you've done this for a few weeks, you probably won't need the alarm anymore.

Keeping a diary at school would be more challenging than keeping it at home, but not impossible. Whenever you have time during the day, write a few lines in your diary about how you're feeling, what you're thinking about, how classes are going, etc. Keep your diary in your desk or locker so that no one else can see it, and make sure that the writing doesn't take away from your work in school.

There isn't really much you can do besides try to find a better hiding spot for your diary and remind that person how disrespectful it is to go through someone's private things.

Yes, it often does. It's a relatively calming activity, and it allows you to vent your feelings. You may even find that you come up with some solutions to your issues while you're focused on writing about them.

You can remember your diary by keeping it in a place where you can easily see it.

It depends on when and what event you are writing about. For a daily diary, people usually write at the end of the day about what happened that day, which is in past tense. They may still use phrases like, "I'm watching TV now as I'm writing this." If you are currently at the event you are writing about, you may use phrases like, "I'm at a party now" and describe the events occurring in present tense. Some people may also describe what is soon going to happen in the future.

It really depends on how big it is. If you take a backpack to school, it could fit in there. If that doesn't work, you could start a small diary for on the go, and keep the big diary for use at home. At home you can keep it under your mattress, under your bed, or in a closet under some clothes.

Think about your day. What did you think of the events that happened today? How did they make you feel? Was it a good day, or a bad day?

Of course you can. You can rip the pages out from your first attempt, get a new diary, or just leave a space in between your first and second attempt. It's all up to you.

You could greet your diary in a more casual way, like "Hey Diary!" You don't even need a greeting at all. You could just write the date and then get to the writing immediately.

No. Because you don't need to share anything, let alone everything, in order to have friends. You don't need to keep sharing things, like fuel, to keep the friendship going. If you don't want to tell them you have cancer, you don't have to, and they'll find out at your funeral. And if you are not forced to share such a huge thing, you're definitely not forced to share any smaller things. Finally, there's no reason why you can't share stuff with both your diary and your friends.

Of course, you're probably the only one who's going to read it, so you can organize it however you want, write in or leave out as much as you want, write several entries about the same day, etc. It's your diary!