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Articles for New Journal Writers
These articles offer basic journal writing information and are especially helpful to novice journal writers.
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Tips for Joy of Writing
Rachel Ballon, Ph.D.
In my writing workshops and private therapy practice I tell both writing students and therapy clients to start a journal. Don't make it one of those fancy ones or one of those expensive handmade books. Buy a notebook and preferably one you can carry around with you at all times. It is a wonderful tool for helping you monitor what you're thinking, feeling, and dreaming about throughout the day and night. Get into the habit of writing in your journal on a daily basis. Record your thoughts, feelings, ideas and even your dreams, both the day and night ones. I wholly recommend journals for non-writers, too. They are a wonderful bridge between your external and internal self. . . .
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Jump-Starting Your Journal:
Five Strategies that Work
Kathleen Adams LPC, CCJF
Date every entry. If you only develop one habit in your entire journal life, let it be this one. A journal tracks change over time and process, and dating your entries gives you a running context for your life. It also offers a particular focus: What is going on in your personal universe on this unique day in history? . . .
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Writing For Clarity To Unlock Your Natural Knowing
Joyce Chapman
For many years now I have illustrated to people that through personal writing they can individually arrive at their own truths. Why do I believe this is true? I consider this to be an innate truth because I have personally re-discovered myself, re-defined my life purpose and realigned with my soul through the process of writing. . . .
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