Back to the contents. Back to my home page. After trying a number of media, I have found that a journal is best written in pen. If you find that you can journal well with a pencil or computer, then pay no mind to my suggestion. On the other hand, I would like to suggest that the pen has distinct advantages over pencil or computer for this kind of writing.
Pencils tend to smear on the page over and is less permanent than pen.
A journal is worthless if the graphite is too smeared to read in a year or two, and a journal with frequent erasures is no fun to read. I have also tried keeping a journal on the computer. This I would not suggest, since a computer is a very impersonal tool for writing. So, in general, I suggest good journal writing needs a pen. It need not be expensive, but at first, try writing with the same pen.