Archive for the 'Journal Writing' Category

Some writers do not understand the power of regularly writing in a personal journal. Journal writing is an excellent way of honing many writing skills that are essential to the writing process. It doesn’t matter much whether you write fiction, non-fiction, articles or blogs, regular writing practice is essential. If possible, I’d encourage all writers, [...]

I am writing a novel. I need to clarify that statement: I have been thinking about writing a novel. The time for thinking is over. I urgently need to start some serious planning and writing. The pressure is really on, because I have to present the first chapter – or a part of a chapter [...]

Over the last few days I have been focusing on expanding a journal I am writing for one of the units in my Master of Arts in Creative Writing Course. This journal is for the Creative Writing: Prose unit. In this unit we have a set text book called Writing Fiction by Australian writer Garry [...]

I am beginning to discover that there are a few other strange people out there a bit like me. Quite a few in fact. Strange, because they, too, are compulsive journal writers. It seems that once bitten most people are journal writers for life. I have written in my journal off and on for 16 [...]

I’d like you to meet Jennifer. That’s not her real name. I don’t want anyone to be able to identify her. Jennifer at age seven came into my class as a scared, wide-eyed little girl with a few problems. She was selectively mute. She also had a speech impediment, which could explain why she didn’t [...]