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We are close to the beginning of a New Year…2010…which always brings on the decision of whether to make a New Year’s resolution(s). Personally, I don’t make resolutions as I know I won’t keep them and then I hate the guilt trip after breaking one. But this year, I am planning on renewing my committment to writing daily or weekly in my journal. This is a practice I have done since sixth grade recording all the angst of adolescense and continued through college years, then infrequently after marriage and family. Life kind of gets in the way. Too bad.
Have you thought about journaling? Oh, woe is me, you think. I am trying to finish my novel, article, blog, and now you want me to add writing in a journal? Well, yes, because when you record your thoughts and feelings and events in your journal, you are actually planning your next story or novel because the pages of the journal will be fodder for all your writing.
Below is a post from the blog www.womensmemoirs.com contributed by Susan Wittig Albert, the author of Writing from Life: Telling Your Soul’s Life Story, one of the books I use in the How to Begin Writing Your Llife Story workshop. She has journaled all her life.
