Q&A for How to Start and Decorate a Diary

Yes, it can be.

See How to Hide Your Diary for some tips.

You can write with whatever you'd like, it's your diary! Personalize it and do whatever will make it special for you.

Just keep practicing, and they'll get better. Your diary is for you, so don't worry too much about the quality of your pictures.

Yes, if you're willing to take the time in the future to attempt to read your own diary. I prefer making up my own symbols for letters and write that way. I've learned to read it as easily as regular letters, but nobody else can understand it. Plus, you don't need to buy special invisible ink pens.

Watch them and go see if they are doing anything about it or telling someone. Then when you have the time, tell them politely that they shouldn't have read your diary and tell them not to tell anyone (else).

Be casual and don't bring up the subject. If you bring your diary with you to school or wherever you go, try to make it look like a regular book. Don't write "Diary" on the cover. Maybe put some history notes or something on the first few pages so people don't suspect it's private.

It's your diary - it can look however you'd like.

If you can read it, then it's fine. If you can't, you might want to practice.

Yes. If your diary is small it will be easy to carry and to conceal, so others don't ask to read it.

It depends. Is it going to be yellow, or something like blue or pink or green? If you write in yellow, you will have a hard time reading what it says. If it something darker, then yes, that is a great idea!!

You can add photo of places you've been, add color, draw, and add a cover that represents you.

You can add stickers and make it more colorful. You could also glue things like stamps and postcards to it for a more personalized look.

That's fine. You can use many other things to make it special, see the article above for suggestions.

If you want to stick with the "vintage" vibe, you can always add a piece of string and tie it in a bow which will not only look fashionable, but will make it harder for people to open it.

Of course. You can make it. Like Republic day, Independence day, Christmas.

Buy or make one.

Instead of colored paper, you can use colorful pens, sketch pens, crayons, stickers, and anything you like.

Yes! Diaries are supposed to be about yourself. Make yourself and your feelings the major character and anyone else just other contributing characters to this book.

You can make some flowers, diary entries and whatever you like. You can also decorate a page, maybe draw a flower in a corner.

You can add some small stickers and/or add some string for additional style.

Glue things in and make it sort of a Diary/Scrapbook. Also, maybe buy a thinner one and/or write more.

Of course! Write about daily events and your feelings about them.

If you don't want your parents to see your diary, hide it in unusual places: under your mattress or between books on your bookshelf. See Hide Your Diary from Parents for more tips.

You can use "Wite Out" correction fluid that you can paint over your mistake and let it dry, and it will be a white paper again. (It's pretty cheap). You could also use an erasable pen or pencil.

If you want to go with a "vintage" vibe, you can add a piece of string and tie it in a bow, which will not only look fashionable but will make it harder for people to open it. If you want to go for something more modern, you can add stickers and/or fabric.

Yes, after all, it's your diary, but a decorated diary might be more personal.

You can keep an online diary or type a page in it and then print it and glue it in. That will keep your entries nice and neat.

You can save up for a cheap one and keep your special diary for later. That way, you won't be afraid to use it.

You could if you're both comfortable with that. You could pass it back and forth between the two of you, maybe writing about your deep feelings/emotions that are not always easy to talk about out loud. You could even write love notes to each other in the journal.