Journals and Lies

Is there a problem with lying in your own journal? Keep reading to explore this topic, then see today's writing prompt at the bottom of the post. [Ed. from the Archive.]

Sometimes I wonder if people even realize when they're being performative, or lying to themselves, when they write in their own journals.

I've tried keeping journals before, and honestly, I get bored writing in them. Or writing in them makes me think more, not less, about the things that happened that day that bothered me or irked me. Or, the inverse ha…