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Would you want your diary published two years after you died?
Fox News reported today that the only video of Anne Frank was published on YouTube today. She became famous after her diary, giving her experiences hiding with her family during World War I, was published. Would you want your diary published, destroyed, passed on, ...?
Link to story: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,559060,00.html
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Link to story: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,559060,00.html
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October 03, 2009 01:42 PM
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If my diary told a story like Frank's then yes, I would sincerely hope that it would be released. I feel this way because Anne Frank's words serve as a reminder of a dark period in history as presented through the eyes of a child. If this diary had not been released, many people may not have the same view or feeling about how Jewish people were treated throughout the war.
For those who are interested, Google has an especially good timeline of Anne Frank:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=anne+frank+diary&hl=en&hs=8Vk&sa=X&tbo=p&tbs=tl:1&num=100&ei=kFLHSuyQCI7f8Qb-2MDhCA&oi=timeline_navigation_bar&ct=timeline-navbar&cd=3
I like how this timeline shows how important this book is by describing not only historical events, but recent events as well.
The book itself is in the Good Reads "Best Books of the 20th Century":
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6.Best_Books_of_the_20th_Century
For those who are interested, Google has an especially good timeline of Anne Frank:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=anne+frank+diary&hl=en&hs=8Vk&sa=X&tbo=p&tbs=tl:1&num=100&ei=kFLHSuyQCI7f8Qb-2MDhCA&oi=timeline_navigation_bar&ct=timeline-navbar&cd=3
I like how this timeline shows how important this book is by describing not only historical events, but recent events as well.
The book itself is in the Good Reads "Best Books of the 20th Century":
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6.Best_Books_of_the_20th_Century
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October 03, 2009 04:21 PM
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I would never want my diary published. It is a very private way for anyone to put down their inner most thoughts and to invade that privacy, then publish it for the world to see should not be allowed or possibly against the law!!
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October 03, 2009 04:49 PM
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No, I do not think I would want my diary to go public for any reason. I feel that a diary is private and should not be shared without the publishers OK to do so. Grant you Ann Frank may have had a great story to tell, but I still feel that she wrote it in privacy.
Maybe she should have placed her adventure outside of a diary for publication for all people to read. I guess the word, "Diary" says "Private" to me.
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I do believe that a key and lock is for the privacy of the writer !!
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Maybe she should have placed her adventure outside of a diary for publication for all people to read. I guess the word, "Diary" says "Private" to me.
I do believe that a key and lock is for the privacy of the writer !!
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October 03, 2009 05:36 PM
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Very interesting question! I gave it some thought. After some debate, the only answer I could come up with is “It Depends”.
If I were to die a successful writer, maybe I would not want my diary published. The reason being, that folks have already read my work, and I have probably been interviewed on a personal level. Those interviews would be accessible to anyone who was interested.
However, if I were to die penniless and alone, then I suppose I wouldn’t mind. Posthumous publication is better than none. However, I tend to put extremely personal things in my journal that are really nobody’s business. It would be interesting to say the least. But, if I’m dead, who cares, I guess.
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If I were to die a successful writer, maybe I would not want my diary published. The reason being, that folks have already read my work, and I have probably been interviewed on a personal level. Those interviews would be accessible to anyone who was interested.
However, if I were to die penniless and alone, then I suppose I wouldn’t mind. Posthumous publication is better than none. However, I tend to put extremely personal things in my journal that are really nobody’s business. It would be interesting to say the least. But, if I’m dead, who cares, I guess.
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October 03, 2009 07:24 PM
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Really, no. I don't have a terribly interesting, public life, and I do have a family. It would kill trees for no reason and possibly embarrass my kids. I can just see my diary being remaindered, and the only people who really read it being in-laws and out-laws and the kids who gave me swirlies in elementary school, and my kids' bosses, while the other several thousand copies slowly turn to mush.
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October 03, 2009 08:13 PM
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To be honest, My few attempts in diary keeping have been so sporadically bad that there probably isn't enough to fill a small pamphlet...
... but if I did have a diary, and if it was going to be of interest to the public I'd prefer to take the Michael Palin route and publish it while i was still alive (so that I can be involved in the editing process) but 30 years after the events involved.
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... but if I did have a diary, and if it was going to be of interest to the public I'd prefer to take the Michael Palin route and publish it while i was still alive (so that I can be involved in the editing process) but 30 years after the events involved.
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October 03, 2009 10:46 PM
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Absolutely. Name your price and you can have the diary right now. Hurray, hurray, hurray, one used diary on sale of publication for the low, low price of...$100?...$200?
See, I haven't done anything in my life that's really interesting enough to capture the imaginations and attention of the general public. I have no secrets, no intrigue, and frankly all of my embarrassments are probably pretty common and ordinary (phew!).
But if something happened to me that suddenly made my life interesting, by all means publish it! Contributing to the written discourse of history is an EXCITING proposition! It's a piece of immortality than is rarely ever granted.
What a way to have a life remembered!
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See, I haven't done anything in my life that's really interesting enough to capture the imaginations and attention of the general public. I have no secrets, no intrigue, and frankly all of my embarrassments are probably pretty common and ordinary (phew!).
But if something happened to me that suddenly made my life interesting, by all means publish it! Contributing to the written discourse of history is an EXCITING proposition! It's a piece of immortality than is rarely ever granted.
What a way to have a life remembered!
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October 04, 2009 06:39 AM
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I don't keep a diary, for this specific reason.
I'm a writer and I have tons of manuscripts and I would imagine that some of not most of them will end up being published after I die. One of them is actually a semi-autobiographical account of my life, from being a 15-year-old runaway, homeless by 16, teen mom by 17, to graduating from college and owning two businesses and everything else in between. I think I can tell a compelling story.
yet, there's things that are just for me, not for anyone else.
So I don't keep a diary. It would be nearly impossible, though, for someone to tell my life from fiction, except for one thing: the fiction makes logical sense!
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I'm a writer and I have tons of manuscripts and I would imagine that some of not most of them will end up being published after I die. One of them is actually a semi-autobiographical account of my life, from being a 15-year-old runaway, homeless by 16, teen mom by 17, to graduating from college and owning two businesses and everything else in between. I think I can tell a compelling story.
yet, there's things that are just for me, not for anyone else.
So I don't keep a diary. It would be nearly impossible, though, for someone to tell my life from fiction, except for one thing: the fiction makes logical sense!
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October 04, 2009 08:28 AM
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NO! if i wanted it published, i'd do it while i was alive so i could profit from it. i don't believe in keeping a diary, but if i had, it would no doubt be a bestseller - people love stories that read like a soap opera. mine would be a cross between desperate housewives, survivor & the Lewis & Clark Expedition!
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