Journals are mainly for you to keep track of your character's progress in SA.
Here, you can write journal entries about your days in SA/Megapolis, record your RPs, which missions you took, what classes you signed up for, what pets you've gotten from the pet shop, your opinions and views on people you've met, and so on.

A well written journal entry of at least 600 words will get you 1 point for advancement.

Any Solo RP Missions you decide to take can be written as a journal entry. Please label them clearly as a Solo Mission in your journal. Completion will also get you 1 point.

You are free to spiffy your journal up in anyway you like. Just make sure all the necessary info is well organized, since staff will be going through your journals to check if your character has indeed fulfilled all the requirements needed for the next stage.

All journals will be started by the mule. Do NOT start your own.

You are official once you have a journal. Whether or not you have art yet doesn't matter emotion_awesome