Tonight I did a free writing class for Chanukah from Yocheved Rottenberg of Write Your Way Home. (I’m sure if you contact her through the site, she’d send it to you). The following is what I wrote for one of the exercises, a Captured Moment from a Chanukah gone by. I walk across the expansive dining room to the …
Open up an album or a box of family photos. Find old pictures of yourself (alone and/or with other people). A variety of photos. Not just the cutest ones. The ones that make your heart twinge when you look at them. The birthday party where I threw that tantrum. The hayride where everyone else is smiling and I’m glaring at …
The start of a new year is an especially good time to open a notebook and start journaling. Even if writing was never your thing, just putting pen to paper and diving right in will help you access wisdom and insight and get to know yourself better. Journaling has been a tremendous game changer for me and I want everyone …
This is the journaling technique that I used most intuitively when I got into journaling months ago. A Springboard is a writing prompt to launch you into your writing session. It’s a sentence or two that you plunk on the top of the page without thinking too hard, and use as an entryway to your writing session. It may be …
Here is a journaling technique from Journal to the Self, by Kathleen Adams, called “Perspectives.” This is a great technique to try if you want to break out of the feeling of “stuckness” and see different aspects of your life with fresh eyes. Some ideas of how to write from a new perspective: When making a decision, write as …
Journal writing still going strong, and I just wrapped up reading that book of techniques I keep mentioning. It’s been tons of fun to learn new ways to write and keep the juices flowing. I’ve also been flipping through The Artist’s Way and its sequel, The Vein of Gold, for more ideas, and I want to share some of my …
Recently I’ve been going through Journal to the Self, by Kathleen Adams, and learning about different journaling techniques. (This has been an ongoing fascination). I tried one of her ideas and it was so fun and helpful, I wanted to spread the word: character sketching. A character sketch is a written description of someone, which helps you get to …
Thank you to my readers and friends who were there for me this past week. You helped me feel so much better. Thank you! Ok…fun stuff again. One of the homework assignments from the teleconference series that I’m doing is to keep a journal and write a minimum of three pages each day. I’ve kept journals before, off and …
