I have kept a journal off and on since I was 8 and got a Snoopy journal with a lock and key for my birthday. I am often blocked about journaling, though, because either my brother, my parents, or later, my kids would read what I wrote, so I just stopped journaling altogether. So, in the last few years, even though I've been a "writer," I have discovered that I need to journal to keep my sanity as a human! I free-write sometimes in a little legal pad that looks like my to-do notepad, so that's a problem, because people have mistaken it for my grocery list. Now I have a copy of Writing Spirit and Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert with a legit spiral notebook with a set of pretty gel pens in my bedside table that is booby trapped (just in case anyone in my family is reading this).
Oh my goodness, this is a wonderful and inspiring post! I am definitely running to get this book and will be using it to help guide daily writing. What a gift and thank you for sharing!
I've kept a journal since a young age. Journaling is how I process events, my feelings, my dreams, and the world. The problem is, what to do with 40+ years worth of notebooks!?!
So, I'll start!
I have kept a journal off and on since I was 8 and got a Snoopy journal with a lock and key for my birthday. I am often blocked about journaling, though, because either my brother, my parents, or later, my kids would read what I wrote, so I just stopped journaling altogether. So, in the last few years, even though I've been a "writer," I have discovered that I need to journal to keep my sanity as a human! I free-write sometimes in a little legal pad that looks like my to-do notepad, so that's a problem, because people have mistaken it for my grocery list. Now I have a copy of Writing Spirit and Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert with a legit spiral notebook with a set of pretty gel pens in my bedside table that is booby trapped (just in case anyone in my family is reading this).
Oh my goodness, this is a wonderful and inspiring post! I am definitely running to get this book and will be using it to help guide daily writing. What a gift and thank you for sharing!
I've kept a journal since a young age. Journaling is how I process events, my feelings, my dreams, and the world. The problem is, what to do with 40+ years worth of notebooks!?!