Denise Vega interviewed at Bildungsroman.

Denise Vega, by the way, is the author of Fact of Life #31.

The whole interview is worth reading, but this really made me laugh:

Click Here (to Find Out How I Survived Seventh Grade) was one of the first books for kids about blogs or told in blog format. Did you keep a diary during your middle school years?

Not during middle school but I did during high school and college. I've gone back and read them a few times and totally cracked up! I was such a dork. There were several places where I hinted at some big incident or event that had happened to me, saying "there's no way I'll ever forget this so I don't have to say exactly what it is." Well, guess what? I have absolutely no idea what I'm referring to! I encourage anyone who keeps a journal (online or off) to be specific so you can remember events when you look back as an old person like me.

Same here -- except it wasn't that I thought I'd remember everything, it was that I was so worried someone would find and read it (I don't think extreme paranoia was what I was supposed to carry away from Harriet the Spy, but I digress...) that I never wrote about anything that could possibly cause problems later.  Which means, basically, that I wrote about what we had for dinner.  No wonder none of my diaries ever lasted for more than a week.

Comments

[Little Willow]

Thanks for the link! :)

I love old diaries. I've seen people post old entries online or deliver them as spoken word pieces (or just for comedy), and there's nothing funnier than the true entries read by the writers as adults! Funny to see how our priorities shift and our friendships (BFF!) change...