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To write a diary, they say," muses Steve Coogan as Samuel Pepys, "is to live life three times. Once when it happens, once when you write it, once when you read it again. I should like mine to be lived one more time - after I'm gone. Who knows, perhaps posterity will judge me kindly."

1. Be interested in things other than yourself

2. Live in interesting times

3. Be a hero

4. Be a villain

5. Be rude

6. Reveal scandalous secrets

7. Be able to write a bit

Be far ruder, or A fine art to writing an amusing diary