Not necessarily for the better, but the form of a journal nudges your thinking into becoming more linear, in-depth, focused, and comprehensible for a reader with a quick eye and probable impatience. It encourages that word that most writers hate yet desperately need—discipline.
the vanity fair diaries
The Vanity Fair Diaries by Tina Brown
"I found Charlotte Curtis unbearable. What a bogus grandee she is, a coiffed asparagus, exuding a second-rate intellectualism. She didn't ask me one question about VF or any damn thing. Still, I always love hearing Shirley yak on in her cigar-brown voice. She reminds me of Olive Oyl in Popeye"
