Dear Diary...

Anne Frank
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"It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I - nor  for the matter of anyone else - will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.  Still, what does that matter?  I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart." -Anne Frank

If you haven't already guessed, the genre we will be focusing on today is a diary or journal entry.  What's the point in keeping a diary, you might ask?  A diary entry is one of the most personal forms of writing simply due to the fact that the writer believes that his/her eyes will be the only ones to ever gaze upon the page.  A diary is a place where one can disclose innermost thoughts - the reality, the raw nature, of one's life.

Anne Frank had thought this, but when her diary was discovered, a piece of history and a piece of a human heart were also discovered.  Frank's diary has become one of the most famous pieces of literature in all history, and all because a little girl got a blank book as a gift.  Her diary is history, thoughts, and emotions frozen in time.

For this piece, I want you to think about how you could incorporate a diary entry into your multi-genre project.  Depending on the nature of your topic, you could incorporate a journal entry from your perspective (if your topic is personal to you) or from the perspective of a character that you make up for your project.  An idea for repetend is to create a character and give snippets of a diary entry from that character's perspective in between your various pieces of writing to create unity between your work.

Remember that a diary entry is a raw and personal thing: hold nothing back!