If you knew your diary would be published one day....

[Radical Dreamer]

Ok, so I was wondering.

If you knew that your diary was going to be published one day (like Anne Frank's, or several other authors'), would you still write in it the same way you normally would, or would you hold back? Kind of random, I know, but it was an idea that popped up today during English class.

[Tarnish]

I'd erase it from my hard drive and never write again.

[Nate]

No, I wouldn't hold back anything or edit it. For better or for worse, my deepest, darkest secrets are in it, and I would not want anyone to think I was some sort of role model or anything.

But it doesn't matter. I can't see myself ever becoming anyone of note that my diary would be published anyway.

[DaughterOfZion]

it would help if i kept a diary

[Myoti]

I'd set fire to it.

[K. Ayato]

I tore out a section of my journal once. Even then, I wouldn't want people to find it.

[Mangafanatic]

If I knew my journal was going to be published, I'd be even more glad that I didn't have one!

Hmmm, I might take out some stuff (if I had a diary), just because I'm silly that way.

[Myoti]

Actually, if it's just the kind of stuff I would actually put in their, then maybe...

[Mave]

I would hope that I'm dead by then and my kids/descendants wouldn't be traumatized by it.

[Debitt]

I doubt anyone would care about my diaries, and if they did I don't think I'd write any different than I already do.

[Locke]

No, cause it will be like my blogs, never updated and never read.

[Bobtheduck]

What would I care that someone read about my life after I died? Actually, I was very frank even on my livejournal, so I don't think I would care... There would be a lot of "Oh I such-and-such again, I'm so stupid." and that would get a bit old... The publisher would probably cut that stuff out anyhow, so whatever.

[Zilch]

Feh, it'd just mean the entire world would finally know what I ate for breakfast.

[Scribs]

If I knew my diary would be published... First I would start one, then I would fill it with fantastical things that never actually happened. I would make myself look like some legendary hero, and make it as interesting to read as possible.

[Kaori]

I'd set fire to it.

Hear, hear.

Probably the only reason I haven't already destroyed my old journals is that I'm convinced that they aren't of sufficient literary worth to be publishable.

[agasfas]

I don't think I would write it. There are some thoughts that words can't express, so writing them down would seem meaningless. And I don't think I would like for the whole world to know everything about me and all my feelings...

[Godly Paladin]

I write in bullet points and other time-saving ways, so I suppose I'd wax eloquent and go to a chapter format.

Yeah, but that's if I didn't burn it.

[Puguni]

I wouldn't hold back. My journal entries are boring as it is. Not really filled with drama.

[Azier the Swordsman]

If I knew my diary were to ever be published... it would be totally fictionalized.

[The Grammarian]

I would not change the way I write in it.

Of course, that's because I'm paranoid that someone is going to stumble across it already, so it's very edited as-is.

[Sakura15]

I would hope that I'm dead by then and my kids/descendants wouldn't be traumatized by it.

Lol same here. Though, I dont think people would care about mine.

[Yumie]

If my diary was ever published, well, it would be lame because I haven't written in it since I was like 13, and at the age of 13 I wasn't very interesting. And for those of you who are thinking, "You're STILL not very interesting"-- this is true. Which is the reason that I stopped keeping a diary.

[Rachel]

There's not much in my diary besides poems and song lyrics. But you can sort of tell what sort of person I am by what I write.

If someone stumbled onto my blog, however, they wouldn't find anything revealing since I edit it as I write in case someone stumbles onto it. hehe

[TheDrunkenNinja]

just erase it completely.

I wrote down my favorite female anime character in there >_>

[dragonshimmer]

Hmm...I wouldn't change anything NOW. I used to just lay out my heart and soul in my journals even as close as two months ago, but I don't do it so much anymore. Had I been asked this question then, I'd say yes. I would change how much I wrote about and how in depth I went. Now, it's just a few boring and melodramatic things here and there, so I wouldn't really change anything if it were published...it would just be one boring piece of work, lol.

[Shao Feng-Li]

Mother says if you don't want anyone to find out, don't write it down. So I don't keep one.

[SigmaKnight]

If my journal was going to be published. I would write 150,000 times more and be much, much more descriptive, and say how every little thing makes me feel. I'd talk about politics, family problems, sermons that I have heard, and make descriptions of everything I've seen and everything I've done. I'd probably also make mention of everyone I know several times. Every entry in my journal would be at least a 5 page essay.

[Bobtheduck]

Hmm... If it is published after your death, why should anyone really care? I never understood the need to be memorialized. Like people need to remember you for the good you did and not for anything bad... Who cares? You're dead... The way people remember you doesn't matter. All that matters is your heat before God.

On that note, you should write your life was as horrible as possible... Say you murdered 22 people, and you were a crime boss and secretly plotted to overthrow american government (or the government of whatever your home country is) Of course, you are redeemed at the end before a bullet tears into your left temple and you utter your last words of "Thank you Jesus... Now for the tuna fish... ugh"

[Myoti]

just erase it completely.

*flips over the paper of TDN's diary and chalks in the back, revealing what it says*

OoO

*erases it again*

Of course, you are redeemed at the end before a bullet tears into your left temple and you utter your last words of "Thank you Jesus... Now for the tuna fish... ugh"

But... how could you write that?

[Starfire1]

i'd keep writting in it as i always do if it were to be published in the future on the condition that it can be published after, and ONLY AFTER, i'm good and dead and buried.