stories

A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: Changing Your Story

August 22, 2011
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I think a lot about stories — the stories we tell our friends, the stories we create when we journal, and the stories we create when we write fiction and memoir. All of our stories have something in common: an attempt to understand ourselves and the world (or universe) we live in. When we believe [...]

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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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Why Write? Journaling Helps You do Life Better

August 24, 2010
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If you’re like many of us, sometimes getting started with a new challenge can seem like the hardest thing in the world. Human beings don’t mind hard work or long journeys; we’re just terrified of getting started! We procrastinate, and make excuses, and stick our heads in the sand. We pretend that if we just [...]

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Why Write? Taking Care of Yourself

August 13, 2010
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EVERY day, or at least every other day, I make sure to take a few minutes to write in my journal. It is precious time, just for me. I have a tendency to get so involved in all my other commitments — work, family, taking care of the house and others — that it’s easy [...]

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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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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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Making Meaning: Creating a Positive Spin

June 29, 2010
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AS I WAS LYING ON MY BACK this morning, groaning through one of my yoga stretches, I was thinking about the journal entry I wrote earlier. I had, in the spirit of my weekly Journaling Through Life E-zine, written an entry using one of this week’s writing prompts. The topic was Time, and the prompt [...]

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