BlogTalk: The Week’s Journaling Blog Roundup

December 9, 2011
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I love Sharon Lippincott’s method for mapping the stages of her life: it’s so un-linear. Linearity is something I excel in, and I know I would benefit from the organic, round, mind-mapping quality of her approach. I’ve included a small thumbnail of her sketch here, but go read her blog post, The Tree of Me, [...]

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A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: Got Courage?

December 5, 2011
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson What do you picture when you think of courage? I picture children and adults with serious illnesses who manage to inspire others by maintaining positive outlooks; activists for social justice who peacefully stand [...]

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Blogtalk: Living with Regret

December 2, 2011
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Do you regret wrong decisions you’ve made? What does it really mean to feel regret? And is life better without it? In the following TED talk, Kathryn Schulz makes a strong case for accepting regret as a positive and reasonable emotional response to bad decisions and mistakes. “We should feel pain when things go wrong,” [...]

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A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: Body Gratitude

November 21, 2011
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Reading Purge: Rehab Diaries and interviewing author Nicole Johns last week has made me more aware of body image—a touchy subject for most of us, man or woman, boy or girl—and the many ways in which it affects us. How often I, for instance, look into a mirror and see only the unwanted bulges, bumps, [...]

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Author Interview: Nicole Johns-Purge: Rehab Diaries

November 16, 2011
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Today I’m excited and pleased to post my recent interview with Nicole Johns, author of Purge: Rehab Diaries. Nicole Johns lives in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, where she teaches English. She earned her MFA from the University of Minnesota and a BA in English from Penn State University. The summer after starting the MFA [...]

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Blogtalk: Compassionate Criticism and Avoiding Distraction

November 4, 2011
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Compassionate Criticism – Sharon Lippincott just posted one of the best lists of constructive feedback rules for writers I’ve seen. It’s similar to the list of guidelines I give all my students, but I think Sharon’s is better articulated. (I think I’ll have to steal it. Okay with you, Sharon?) I think one of my [...]

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Writing Through Emotions: Death – the Ultimate Fear

October 31, 2011
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Halloween, All Hallows Eve, Día de los Muertos, Samhain — ritual celebrations of death, the end of harvest, and the transition into the cold, dark winter. The ancient Celts believed the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead to be thin and permeable this time of year, when ghosts roam the earth [...]

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