I believe journaling is a powerful tool for anyone creative...whether writing creatively, doing journalism, song writing, computer programming, etc. A journal is an easy way to jot down ideas or express them whenever the mood strikes. The great American Novel can be journaled. My journal is simply a spiral bound notebook that I take almost everywhere. Nearly every post in my BLOG was spawned from journal entries. Having 4 kids, I don't have a lot of time to write, so journaling really helps. I try to jot down all kinds of things in my notebook: my own ideas, stories, poems, memories, news items, words and phrases, passages from stories with a reference to the the book so I can go back and read them for inspiration later, etc. There is no better way to write. I am thinking about doing Blog Posts in the future called "From the Journals" that are simply entries from my journal, here is a sample of a page from one:
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Maya and Jase have run up several flights of stairs in the abandoned warehouse type building. They are 8 stories up. The monster is just a few steps behind them, screaming for blood....the stairs have rotted away that lead up further. Maya and Jase will only live if they jump out the window next to them. Maya who is first, looks back at Jase before they jump and yells, "I hate to fly!"
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Radiation pagers. They go off when they detect radiation. However if you need to detect the level, it's probably too late.
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"No one can make you fell inferior without your consent" -- Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Hidden Cathedral
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How many winters left until I'm gone? Winters left.
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Vitamins for video gamers. Character studies. Dialogue Pieces. Branded news...Fox, CNN, Conservative, Repulican.
Carnival Girl. A mind is a terrible thing to taste.
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"I was meant to be a poet. But one does not eat good intentions so I have become some other things." -- Vertigo X--Winter Man Preview.
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Crying Blood. Rain of a 1000 Tears. Shed your skin. Ograsmo--better orgasm, less mess--in one easy to take pill.
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"A day without blood, is like a day without sunshine." --Michael
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