Journal power, or how I learned to write my own journal.

Journal writing is one of easiest activities to perform. You don't need a fancy notebooks. A simple notepad will suffice. I personally use OMNI. I find they make me feel right at home writing on them. Then again, you don't even need a notepad. If you have a pc you can create a file for your journal. This is good for those who get wrist cramps from writing with traditional notepad and pencil.

With journal writing, your aim is to simply describe events of day, your thoughts and actions of others. The special and not so special events in your day. The mundane or special, they are all potential material for your journal.

Here is tricky part. You have to sit down and write. Talking about it and wondering what to write down is not journal writing. It is only when you actually sit down and start writing events of your day that you are journal writing.

Since this journal is just for you, it doesn't have to be spelled perfectly or even be neat if you can read not so great handwriting. As you continue to write, you will improve in both spelling and handwriting.

It doesn't have to be neat or perfectly spelled. This exercise isn't about spelling, structure or neatness. Instead, it's meant to promote plain and simple activity. If you write more often, even if you feel it's bad, you will improve. The key to improvement in any activity is to practice often, and writing is no exception.

Keep on with it and by time you've worn journal out, you will be more observant, more skilled in writing and detail, and you will have a stronger grasp on world around you.

Every story has to end. Closing.

Journal writing can be tedious or it can be a wonderfully fulfilling experience. It's all in what you make of it. The journal is your personal canvas to describing events of your world and your life. You are main character. Enjoy your story.

Freewriting in Practice.

Freewriting is one of easiest ways to write. No prose, no context, just us and words. It doesn't matter how they are arranged, it doesn't matter if they even make sense. All we have to do is write.

For this exercise, let's buy ourselves a spiral bound notebook, I personally use OMNI.

Write in it everyday. Just one page and one side per day. It doesn't matter if you can't think of anything to write, just write what comes to you, even if you feel it is subpar or not worth effort.

It doesn't have to be neat or perfectly spelled. This exercise isn't about spelling, structure or neatness. Instead, it's meant to promote plain and simple activity. If you write more often, even if you feel it's bad, you will improve. The key to improvement in any activity is to practice often, and writing is no exception.

Keep on freewriting everyday, one page and one side at a time. By time you have reached end of book, I can promise you will be more skilled than you were before you started. Once you get into habit of writing everyday, writing will become easier and more natural.

This exercise also promotes mental clairity. We all have stress and other issues on our mind. By freewriting everyday, we allow our minds to be cleansed of this muck and allow mind to be freed of that so it can think clearer and create more precise and interesting ideas.

Closing Arguments on Freewriting.

To truly be a creative author, it doesn't take knowing magic words, it takes patience and persistence to write wrong ones often and willingness to mold and shape them into right ones. Freewriting will help to keep your mind fresh and your heart in right place, not to mention, it's very fun too.

Sources.

"Anybody Can Write" by Roberta Jean Bryant.