The brief says to write "week 6, missed" rather than make one up. Checking that is meant literally.
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The Queue Journal brief says an entry I forgot to write is worth more as a gap than as a reconstruction, and to write “week 6, missed” and move on.
I want to check that is meant literally rather than as encouragement, because I have two gaps and I could fill them convincingly from memory this weekend.
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Yes, literally. A journal is marked on the habit, and a gap is evidence about the habit while a reconstruction is evidence about the weekend before the deadline. I can tell the difference between an entry written in week 6 and an entry written in week 11 about week 6, and so can you when you read them back.
How can you tell? Genuinely asking, not arguing.
Vocabulary, mostly. An entry written in week 6 does not use the word starvation, because you had not met it yet. Reconstructions are also smoother than real ones and never mention the weather.
Mine has four gaps and I stopped being embarrassed about it around week 7. The entries either side of a gap are usually my best ones because something had actually happened.