D) Writing Tips

Journal Writing Tips: Creating a Special Place for Writing

November 16, 2010

BECAUSE of the reflective nature of personal journal writing, it can have a meditative, sacred quality to it. For this reason, I recommend having a special place for your journal writing. It doesn’t need to contain fancy furnishings, but the best place to write is where you are will not be distracted, that feels good [...]

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Journal Writing Tips: Writing Through Self-Doubt

October 19, 2010

WHEN it comes to writing, and this includes journal writing, we all have times when we second-guess or doubt ourselves — usually when we’re well into a project or have embarked on a new commitment. In my experience the very best way to move through those periods of writing-related insecurity — well, any form of self-doubt, actually — is to write about it. Here’s how.

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Journal Writing Tips: Persistence Pays

September 21, 2010

JOURNAL writing is a microcosm of life. And as with anything else in life, it pays to be persistent and to continue working toward your goals. Persistence requires continuing to move forward in spite of occasional discouragement or setbacks. When it comes to journaling, we all become disenchanted or discouraged with our practice from time [...]

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Journal Writing Tips: Writing a Letter to Yourself

August 3, 2010

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

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

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

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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