Journals?

In an earlier post I mentioned needing an audience, and in an earlier conversation I had with friends we spoke of journals and how some are good at keeping them and others (like me) are not. It's really about the audience. When I was in Brasil, I had a housemate that kept two sets of journals and I would read 'the small plates' set. He, knowing that I was reading them, would write specifically for me and be excited when I commented on what he had written. I started doing the same and it became extremely easy to keep a journal, I had an audience and I could write and have someone other than me appreciate my writings. It came to the point where I would be disappointed when Anj (Elder Aaron Joseph Andersen) was too busy to read my journal and would have to wait a day. We soon had inside jokes that we would leave for the other to find in our respective journals. I imagine that's why so many people keep blogs, it's that hunger for an audience. Except in general, nobody cares if the author took a nap or had a really good slurpee. I guess you just need one or two people that care about you to read it, comment on it, and then write for them. And don't mention any naps. Unless they happened while you were driving.