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D) Writing Tips

Journal Writing Tips: Writing a Letter to Yourself

August 3, 2010
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A FUN AND EFFECTIVE journal writing activity is to write letters to yourself — letters that you can seal up and send, just save for a rainy day, or never read again. You can write to the future you, the past you, or the current you. You can write from one part of you (the [...]

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Writing Tips: 5 Ways to Overrule Your Inner Editor

July 6, 2010
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HAVE YOU EVER had a great story idea and started writing, only to get stuck editing the first page over and over? Maybe you were even writing in your private journal and found yourself editing your writing, though no one but you would ever read it. If you have an active inner editor and critic, [...]

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Why I Use Journal Writing Software Instead of a Pen

April 29, 2010
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ONE OF THE HOTTEST TOPICS among those of us who journal is whether to use a pen and paper or a computer. And, though most of us are willing to let everyone else do whatever they do, we journal writers hold strong opinions about which way is best and why we adhere to it. In [...]

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A Writer’s Journal

April 27, 2010
Flower Amidst Thorns

AS YOU KNOW, I’m a big fan of daily journaling (that is what Writing Through Life is all about, after all), but did you know that there are many types of journals? When we think about journal writing, most of us think about a private place to write our deepest, darkest secrets. A place to [...]

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The Blank Page

March 27, 2010
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FACING a blank page, I wonder, how should I fill it? What can or should I say? I’ve heard writers tell tales about how the blank page fills them with dread. They worry about what they will write. Wonder how they can communicate something meaningful. Agonize about what it means to be creative. Self-Doubt and [...]

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Getting Stuck

March 16, 2010
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AS AN ARTIST OR WRITER, what does it mean to “get stuck,” and perhaps more important, how do I get “unstuck”? The words getting stuck bring several pictures to my mind. In one, my foot is caught in something, perhaps under a fence or a rock, and I can’t pull it loose. In another, I [...]

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Journaling Practice: Morning Pages or Evening Notes?

March 8, 2010
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THIS MORNING, I was thinking about the benefits of daily journaling. I am in the practice of writing in the mornings, shortly after awakening. But sometimes, if I haven’t had a chance, or if it has been a particularly eventful day, I write in the evenings. As I thought about it, I wondered if either [...]

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