Journal writing: from jumbled entry to meaningful prose

April 22, 2009 – 1:57 pm

I just re-read a journal entry I had written and found myself laughing aloud! My entry–hastily written in free flow– sounded like it was written by a barely literate drunk. Misplaced modifiers, a soup of typos, crazy shifts in tenses and viewpoints.  And I consider myself a reasonably intelligent person?! HA!  However, with some some [...]

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Can’t see the forest for the trees?

March 12, 2009 – 11:50 am

When I write in my journal, I usually write about what’s in the forefront of my mind, what in Anais Nin’s words is “warm, vivid, and near to you at the moment.”  Perhaps I describe how my husband/co-worker/sister is agreeable or annoying or aloof.  About what went right today–or what went wrong.  Or that I [...]

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