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Leaving a Trace
Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal | Alexandra Johnson
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An inspirational, practical & literate guide to starting & keeping a journal - & transforming it into something permanent like a memoir or a novel. Leaving A Trace is a practical guide to keeping a journal successfully & transforming it into future projects. Each chapter features both narrative & tailored exercises for beginning & committed diarists. Beginners will turn first to quick ways to overcome inhibitions, get started & stay on course. Seasoned chroniclers will start diaries with a new slant: they will learn how to trigger inspiration with creative brainstorming exercises; how to note patterns in diaries they already have & how to shape their material.
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Joanne1
Joanne1
Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal | Alexandra Johnson
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I found this to be a fascinating, practical, inspiring examination of journal writing and of transforming journal into creative works. I took copious notes, wrote lists of memoirs I should read and was spurred on in my own writing. It might not interest everyone but I loved it. Glad I picked it up on a whim on one library visit.

mom2bugnbee Stacking this for my high school daughter, who wants to major in journalism in college. Thanks! 8y
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Joanne1
Joanne1
Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal | Alexandra Johnson
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I'm finding this book about journal writing entirely motivating. I have to read it with my notebook and pen beside me.... as, I'm sure, was intended.

BooksForEmpathy I have been wishing I wrote more. I am very intrigued by this... 💕. 8y
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Joanne1
Joanne1
Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal | Alexandra Johnson
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Are you a journal or diary writer? My grandmother and father both kept/keep a diary but I never really gave it ago. This year I'm exploring writing in different ways to inspire my own writing. At the moment I'm reading about journal writing to see if that gets me going.

Sue Journal writing has been an important part of my life. As someone with anxiety and depression, I find it helpful to get all of the crap out of my head and onto paper (it stops me going over and over stuff). I'm pretty fickle though - sometimes I will write every day, and then I won't write for ages. 8y
Joanne1 @Sue I have struggles with anxiety too and that's definitely part of my thinking about starting a journal. But I also don't want to dwell only in that part of my head - which I sometimes get trapped in and can't see what's outside of it. 8y
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