Create Your Writer's Journal

Ever wish you had a bushel of ideas and spot-on observations about the world around you to dip into for article and book ideas? You can have handy books full of them. Start your own journal.

You can give it a name if you want, maybe Henry or Randomness or Jewels. Start with a hard bound "book" of blank pages wrapped in burgundy leather or a steno pad. If it has blank pages, it'll work.

When you fill it up, start a new journal, write the date begun on it and keep it and a pen handy.

DO NOT TRY TO...

·      organize your thoughts,

·      worry about a "theme,"

·      aim for straight lines or punctuation.

JUST WRITE...

   ·     nature observations,

   ·     people interacting,

   ·     personal, neighborhood and world crises,

   ·     your critique on anything,

·      notes on gratitude, annoying habits, yearnings, joys and rhyme.

·      cuss, pray, demand,

·      write a sultry haiku,

·      ...snips and bits.

Sometimes you'll start an essay or even a book. You don't need to finish it. Over time, lots of small ideas take glorious shape, blossoming silently while you were thinking about getting the oil changed .

When you're fresh out of  publishable ideas, start paging through your journals, and enjoy the wealth of ideas you created. 

Happy writing, 

Lin