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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Sensory Details: The sense of smell

July 27, 2010
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THE SENSE OF SMELL has always been my weakest sense, and I have always envied writers whose sense of smell is strong and present in their storytelling. Writers who talk about the steamy, yeast-filled fragrance of a loaf of bread straight from the oven, who remember scents of lilacs and mown grass from their childhood, [...]

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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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Writing Through Gratitude: What it Means

July 20, 2010
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A FRIEND recently told me that she keeps a journal only during the tough times and that she finds it difficult to write when everything seems to be going well. And she’s not the first person to have told me that. I’ve noticed that when things are difficult, we’ll write the things we can’t find [...]

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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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Why Write? Clarity

July 13, 2010
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WRITING THROUGH TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY clarifies perspective and strengthens decision-making skills. We all have times of change in our lives, times when we don’t know what’s going to happen next, when the future seems to be engulfed by a vague, gray fog, inaccessible and maddeningly disconcerting. When confusion seems to reign, and you aren’t sure [...]

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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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