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Journal Writing

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As a young girl my journal or diary was the place I could write down my deepest feelings. Now as an adult I still use it for that purpose. A journal is neutral. It is inanimate.A journal is not going to jump out of your hands and berate you for writing down what you think.

Use your journal to vent, rant and rage at the injustices in your life or the world. Write down your fears and concerns.  Write down the things that puzzle you. When a dear friend died I could write about how the loss was affecting me. It gave me the opportunity to vent the deep sorrow I felt.

Remember to also use your journal to brainstorm some solutions to problems, dream big dreams and express gratitude for the things you do have.

Read this. . .

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Here is a link to a Reader’s Digest article with John Updike. Below is a sampling.  I aspire to the multiple writing rooms. I would like to start with a room with a view.

Q: Ever suffer from writer’s block?

A: Every day there’s a struggle. I think, Is this worth doing? Am I doing it well? Then there’s the gratuitousness of writing fiction–of writing about people who don’t exist. But there are many privileges in a freelance, self-employed life. Writing every day is a small price.

Q: Give us a tour of the three desks you have at home.

A: We moved into an old summer-house built on a patrician scale. I took the maids’ quarters, above the kitchen-four small rooms plus a bath. In the room with a wooden desk and a typewriter, I write mail. In the room with a steel desk and a view of the sea, I read proofs and write by hand. A third room has a white desk and a computer for final drafts and longer letters. And the fourth, where I read, has an easy chair.