Writing my third-person story

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I kept a diary regularly between the ages of 13 and 17: I'm now starting to type these up. As an extra challenge, I'm trying to write in the third-person: my main 'character' is now called Laura (I'm unsure why I named her this, but it fits), and I write from a narrator's point of view. Usually when I write, I go back and change things: I'm trying not to do that this time, and just to keep going. So far I've completed one diary entry, we'll see how this goes.

This is an interesting challenge, going from first-person (diary) to third-person narration. Are you allowing yourself to deviate from your diary entries, or staying more or less true to them? If I may ask, how long ago did you keep this diary? I wish I still had mine from that age.

I also have a tendency to re-write/revise before I've had a chance to finish a first draft, so I understand the difficulty of just plowing through to the end. Keep it up, though, and let us know how you're doing!

Sipping her tea, young Laura clicked through the forums.

"... lame poll ... stupid troll ... emo whining ... emo troll ... another suicide thread ... Ah!"

She began to type. "I kept a diary regularly between the ages of 13 and 17: I'm now starting to type these up. As an extra challenge, I'm trying to write in the third-person: my main 'character' is now called Cathleigh (I'm unsure why I named her this, but it fits)..."

As she typed, she could not help it but to feel a little pride for her perfect spelling, grammar, and use of punctuation.

"Now let's see that awful Fnord muck this one up!"

Thank you! I've so far worked through three entries: I'm trying to keep the events the same (changing names and locations), although I'm allowing myself a bit of leeway with dialogue, since I only wrote the general gists of conversations in my diary. I'm 20 now, so I started my diary just over 7 years ago. I wrote a few entries after I turned 17, but they're quite far apart. I wrote on mydeardiary quite a bit when I was 17 and 18, but after the site went down I haven't been able to recover those entries, and looking through the internet archive sites only gives me the first entry.