My childhood diary was filled with boring details.
An example: "Had Girls Scouts today and watched Bonanza."
(I watched a lot of Bonanza). But writing in my diary did get me into the habit of writing every day. (A discipline that comes in handy to most writers).
Loretta Ellsworth and Elizabeth Dulemba in front of the Young House in Montgomery, Alabama, at a get-together preceding the Alabama Book Festival.