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YOUR JOURNAL, YOUR WRITING
By
Lael Johnson
You can start a new journal solely dedicated to writing practice. You can use this journal for working on your writing, separate from your personal journal or any other journals that you may already using. It’s a great reminder to dedicate time and space to your writing practice. You can set up a writing schedule for each of your projects/areas of writing practice. You can also dedicate journals for each area/project if that works better for you. It is up to you how you decide to set up your journal(s). Remember that the more writing you do, the more your writing will improve.
POETRY: You can practice writing a poem a day or ten poems a day. You can practice free verse or more structured poetry forms, using guides that will help you in the process. There are several books available that provide a variety of exercises designed to tweak and improve your writing technique.
ESSAYS: You can list ideas for your essays or for any other writing practice that you want to practice. You can write outlines, first and last paragraphs or just random sentences and phrases, that you may find useful for later essay topics.
SHORT STORIES: You can list, develop and edit ideas. You can create short bios for your characters. You can experiment with story lines, structure and anything else that is pertinent to your writing projects.
FLASH FICTION: You can practice writing short stories from 250 to 1000 words, etc. It’s a shorter form of short stories that offers a unique writing challenge.
MAGAZINE ARTICLES: You can gather article ideas. You can track submissions of your articles. You can also develop a list of markets that you want to submit your articles too. You can keep all of your market research in one journal.
NON-FICTION WORK: You can continue using all of the techniques here to apply to all of your non-fiction writing as well, article writing, business reports, blog posts, web content, and any other potential writing projects.
Please comment on this here or at my coaching blog.
© 2008 Writer’s Eye Advisory Service. Lael Johnson. All rights reserved.
MY JOURNAL, MY PAPER FRIEND
By
Lael Johnson
I wanted to share with you four ways that your journal can become an important paper friend in your life. Take a few minutes to read this article and see if it gives you a new perspective on your journal writing.
How do you spend time with a good friend?
I trust my friend to listen to and comment on my conversations, including those topics that are important to me. When I journal I develop the same trust. Now, you might say, how can you trust a piece of paper? That doesn’t make sense. If you think about it though, it actually does make sense, because I’m actually talking to myself and to God, or whatever you choose to call a power outside yourself. So, when I write, I am constantly learning to trust myself to share express what is most important to me, even if it is only as simple as a to-do list or as complex as a grieving over the loss of a friendship. The more that I write, the more that I trust myself to write and the more I learn to write.
How do you have fun with a good friend?
I schedule time with my friend to go out to a movie, to a coffeehouse, attend a concert or go shopping. We spend time participating in activities that are fun, interesting, educational and sometimes challenging. When I journal, I carry my paper journal nearly everywhere I go. I sometimes stop and write my observations on the spot, like I did a few years ago, when I went to visit a local museum. I stopped to take a break, while people were walking around a garden and wrote some of my observations. At another museum, I stopped and wrote some notes after each exhibit, because there were no benches to sit on, inside the exhibit areas.
How do you communicate with a good friend?
I talk, phone, email, text and sometimes write postal mail to my friends. My preferred method is to meet face to face with my friends, though it is harder to do, as schedules become busier and busier over time. When I journal I write monologues, where I talk for pages about whatever is on my mind at the time. Sometimes I write dialogues or add several voices to a conversation so I can hear different points of view about a situation or event. I write unsent letters, where I discuss emotionally-charged issues, that I couldn’t discuss even with a good friend sometimes, until I finished expressing some of those strong emotions. I use my journal to practice, plan and prepare for conversations with my friends, loved one and other people as well.
How do you help a good friend?
I listen, talk, listen more, and share any and every resource I can with my friend, depending upon the situation that she might be going through. I give as much of my time, attention and resources to her, until she doesn’t need them anymore. Then we celebrate going through a tough spot together and look forward to a future filled with better times. When I journal, I go through the same process, sometimes I use my journal to help me help my friend or myself when I’m having a difficult day. My journal is a great resource and companion as I go through any life situation. Like my real friend my journal is truly an important paper friend in my life.
Please feel free to comment about this article here or at my coaching blog.
© 2008 Writer’s Eye Advisory Service. Lael Johnson. All rights reserved.
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