Journal Writing: The How and Why - Softcover

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Journal writing is not just for professional writers. It can be useful in everyone's life. Journals give you the opportunity to discover who you are. As you make a record of what you feel that day or during an important event, you improve your memory. This is true whether you write a daily journal or a special memoir of an event in your life. Writing about anything helps to crystalize it in your memory.Journal writing helps you enter a stream of consciousness and tap into your creativity, this is very useful to writers and artists. Journal about conversations you’ve overheard to remember them or to create a story to fill in any gaps. If you have a great vacation or visit somewhere that leaves you awestruck by its beauty, capturing that feeling by describing it in your own words can lead to a poem, a story, a novel, or just an extra vivid memory. Too often we think taking a picture with our phone or camera is enough, but words are best for capturing feelings and emotions.Journal writing helps us deal with stress and anger management. It allows you to analyze your experience. If you had an argument and lost, maybe you can come up with the exact words or sentence you should have said to win the argument. This reflection helps you overcome anger or frustration and clears your mind to enjoy friends and family again.Hopefully, as you learn to keep a journal, you will discover all these ways the process is helpful and perhaps many more.

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