or, The Many Ways Journalling Can Help You Find, Keep, and Develop Your Great Ideas - Journalling isn't just a way to record your ideas - it's also a space to develop them.
Interesting and fitting article. I read my old journals after NYE (from 2020, 21 and 22) and was sad to see I journaled less and less, so I started again. It's just short notes on the day.
The key is somehow to make it a habit and I still struggle with it.
Journalling is also a way to "brain dump" - clear all the writing and non-writing thoughts to make a clear pathway for creative work. No one needs to see those journals... (grocery lists, complaints about the MIL, angsty analysis of why-do-I-have-writer's-block, plot ideas that go nowhere on one or many projects, a short poem, affirmations, responses to critique, processing of goals, etc.) Get it out and get on... but feel free to burn them after. The reason all those things can be purged is the very fact that no one will see it.
I do not journal, and I’ve always found the concept a bit bewildering. I don’t enjoy writing by hand, so that’s out, and I find that when I write it is with an end in mind, not just to “play.” I jot down notes from time to time, in either Google Keep or in a Google Doc, and if I keep coming back to it, I know it’s got me. Mostly I chase ideas around in my head. I notice, Graham, that you don’t say much about your own journal ... do you have one? What’s your practice?
Journaling is empowered even further by the right prompts that make you think in positive ways.
Interesting and fitting article. I read my old journals after NYE (from 2020, 21 and 22) and was sad to see I journaled less and less, so I started again. It's just short notes on the day.
The key is somehow to make it a habit and I still struggle with it.
Journalling is also a way to "brain dump" - clear all the writing and non-writing thoughts to make a clear pathway for creative work. No one needs to see those journals... (grocery lists, complaints about the MIL, angsty analysis of why-do-I-have-writer's-block, plot ideas that go nowhere on one or many projects, a short poem, affirmations, responses to critique, processing of goals, etc.) Get it out and get on... but feel free to burn them after. The reason all those things can be purged is the very fact that no one will see it.
I do not journal, and I’ve always found the concept a bit bewildering. I don’t enjoy writing by hand, so that’s out, and I find that when I write it is with an end in mind, not just to “play.” I jot down notes from time to time, in either Google Keep or in a Google Doc, and if I keep coming back to it, I know it’s got me. Mostly I chase ideas around in my head. I notice, Graham, that you don’t say much about your own journal ... do you have one? What’s your practice?
TY for covering this topic! And definitely Yes! Journaling is a brilliant tool and it is free:))