Has this happened to you? You are working on your book, your work in progress. Suddenly, many other events, relationships, and life goals change for the better. That’s the power of transformative writing.
A brief blog about the abundance of words, the write words, in the safe place of your journal or wherever you keep your ideas. There are health benefits to writing it all down in the privacy of your journal.
In the New Year, now is a good time to take a post holiday review. Pull out your journal and use these questions as prompts, by novelist and writing teacher, Catharine Bramkamp.
Most writers journal because when it comes to writing, we are all in. We work on our novels while waiting for the traffic light to change. We keep journals handy by our beds. What else can journaling do?
Transformative Journaling – the idea of writing straight from your sub conscious, circumventing the conscious, editorial section of your brain can uncover and express greater truths and insights.
I have made vision boards on and off for years. Sometimes the vision doesn’t vary much and I carry over from one year to the next – same postcard of London, same magazine cut out of the lilac fields in Provence.
There is no question that writing down your best revenge schemes is a delicious way to pass an dreary winter afternoon. But all that writing can lead to so much more.
We are writers. We write. Good, bad, ugly and sometimes completely indifferent work and words all scribbled down in the dark of night, or dawn. We often can’t help but write. And we often wonder if we are just wasting time. Turns out we aren’t.
I adore watching the Olympics mostly because I love to watch the segments the reporters do on the athlete’s journey to win Olympic gold, or to just participate. Most, if not all, have had horrific challenges to overcome in their lives, and they were willing to share those experiences to the benefit of other Olympic hopefuls and the viewers. I especially love those who have overcome personally defeats and tragedies to rise to a individual victory.
My characters come to me in a flash, like my heroine, Henrietta The Dragon Slayer (Book 1), acting out her tales of heroism, by reciting her tale while tumbling and jabbing with an imaginary...
I am failing at journal writing. I’m participating in two journaling communities in which you share your day and your posts and in doing so, you will magically chart your inextricably progress towards the achievement of self-realization and future success.
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by Beth Barany · Published February 21, 2011
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