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Blogtalk: Journaling News — Journal Writing for Children

September 3, 2010
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THIS WEEK’S BLOGTALK is the first of monthly posts that will highlight journaling news, research, and other blog posts about journaling. For today’s Journaling News, we’re taking a look at journal writing for children — the benefits, ways to get them writing, and tips for continued practice. This week’s National Writing Center for Children’s blog [...]

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Blogtalk: Honoring the Creative Process

August 27, 2010
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Adrienne Crezo, in her blog post “On Being Submissive,” beautifully articulates writers’ (and artists’) dilemma: we possess a need to create through our art, second only to our physical needs to breath, eat, and sleep, yet — human that we are — feel inadequate to the task. Our minds imagine great works of sculpture, words [...]

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Blogtalk: Journaling for Direction

August 6, 2010
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ONE of the many, many benefits of journaling is that we get to write with a sense of play and exploration that, in other ways, we may have left behind with our mudpie-making days. Journaling can be as fun as splashing in a puddle with our galoshes on, only it’s all done with words, and [...]

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Blogtalk: Depending on Normal

July 30, 2010
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WHEN I started Blogtalk a little over a month ago, I thought it would be a great way to get to know other bloggers, share our mutual wisdom with one another, and increase our social networking presence, all at once. Well, it is accomplishing all these things and more. What I didn’t realize was how [...]

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Blogtalk: Journaling Conversations with Your Inner Coach

July 23, 2010
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A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, I wrote about ways to overrule your inner editor/critic, ways that apply to journal writers and creative writers alike. Today’s post is about how journaling can help you connect with your inner guide, or coach, and is inspired by Mari McCarthy’s blog post, in which she gives some great advice [...]

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Blogtalk: What We Carry Around

July 15, 2010
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THIS WEEK’S writing prompt on womensmemoirs.com by Promptly Portland is a fun one for  journal writers, so I thought I’d piggyback on it. If you love to write and you’re a woman — sorry guys — and you haven’t yet checked out this informative website, I highly recommend it. In fact, I like it so [...]

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Blogtalk: Beginner’s Mind

July 8, 2010
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WHAT would it be like to forget all that we think we know and approach each task, each day, with the mindset of a beginner? The question comes to me after reading Susan Ideus’s blog post titled “The Time Has Come.” For Susan, it’s all about how to approach a new lifestyle — that of [...]

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