Oh, yeah, I did that after my first death. Truncated about 2 hours of being lost to 2 minutes of knowing exactly where to go.
I was not going to crawl through the sex scene again, so I made sure to avoid buildings that weren't my house until I was able to save.
I probably won't play much of this game due to only beinb able to save at a single tile in the entire game. I don't mind the journal limitation, but I rather have the journal as a key item that lets you save at desks with a quill.
If you're wondering why have the journal if quills will be save points; it's so the game can have a legitimate reason for locking you out of saving at certain events in areas that have quill desks.
As an example, there could be a dream state where their are quill desks, during the dream, all your items are recorded and removed from you. You can't keep a record of your dream activities while dreaming, you need to be awake for that. Usually. When the dream ends and you wake up, the recorded items get returned to you, including the journal.