Writing Prompt: the old diary

You find an old diary.

Maybe it is one of your own. In it you find a wish list. Have you managed to achieve what you’d wanted to back then? How did you succeed or fail? Has it turned out as you’d expected? 

Could you write a letter to your former self?

Or perhaps it tells of some the events you had forgotten – the crush you had on that girl at school, what it was like when you started your first part-time job, or how infuriating one of your teachers was.

Does it remind you of places you used to go to? The swimming pool with the uncomfortable changing rooms? The park on a summer’s evening?  The fish and chip shop?

Perhaps it’s someone else’s diary. Maybe a parent’s or a grand-parent’s. What do you find out about them that you didn’t know before?

It might be the diary of a complete stranger. What do you find about the person who wrote the diary? Or about hare they lived? Or what the times were like that they lived through?

Now for your story:

Will you tell the story of you finding the diary and what you do with the information you giant and what indeed you do with the dairy itself?

Or will you tell the story that the diary offers you?  

Will you need to do more research?

Are you tempted to start keeping a diary or a jounal?

Will you write a poem, a piece of flash fiction, a script, a short story, a novella or a novel?