The phrase "a written diary of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a diary that has been documented in writing, often to describe a record of personal experiences or thoughts.
Example: "She kept a written diary of her travels, detailing every adventure and emotion she experienced along the way."
Alternatives: "a documented journal of" or "a recorded log of".
When I saw the diary, when I saw the written diary I remembered a number of things about that holiday, not the least being that my eldest son told me on that occasion that his career post school would be the Army, which thankfully he's pursuing.
In the life of an individual, written diaries serve a similar function.
Rueful is perhaps the best way to describe the British writer Simon Gray's rankling wit, which he has purveyed, over the decades, first from the West End stage and, most recently, from a series of hilarious, superbly written diaries.
Carrière was 32, and already an Oscar-winner (for Heureux Anniversaire, a short film made with his friend and mentor Pierre Étaix), when he was chosen by Buñuel in 1963 to co-write Diary of a Chambermaid.
Arthur, a comedic Frenchman who had exiled himself in St . Petersburgto teach French literature and write short stories, was writing a diary of the trip — a charming account full of trysts and romances as the all-male team could not help but fall for the ample charms of beauties in the countries they passed through.
Frith, who has headed the glossy gossip title for eight years, has signed a deal to write a diary of the years he spent encouraging sometimes obsessive popular interest in the likes of the Beckhams, Amy Winehouse and Geri Halliwell.
Last summer he co-wrote a diary of the World Cup, a correspondence with the writer Fredrik Ekelund, in which he muses on his affection for the cynical approach of Argentina – for a long time, "Argentina" was the planned title of My Struggle.
IF Bridget Jones's gay brother were to write a diary of his own, with a little help from the Farrelly brothers, the result might read something like Paul Burston's rueful and raunchy "Shameless," a hootingly funny yet strangely tender first novel about the post-breakup sexcapades of a hapless gay Londoner named Martin and his (usually) luckier friends.
The magazine excerpted Gary Shteyngart's memoir "Little Failure," and Shteyngart wrote a diary of his book tour for Page-Turner.
