I am a letter write and love it. There is something so nice about telling your friends about what is happening to you and in your life and then sending it off to them in the post. Then there is the excitement you get when the reply letter comes popping through the letterbox to you. I have kept some journals over the years but not every year. I definitley did it for my 40th year and still have those notebooks. I like the ideas of how you showed how you journal. Thank you for sharing.
I took up journaling again during the pandemic when our state's historical society asked if people would journal and then share with them. I realized there was no way I could send it in as it got too personal and raw. I haven't stopped and I just started my 9th volume this week. As a kid I journaled but a snoopy mother put a halt to that. Sometimes I wish I had those yet but they went up in smoke years ago.
I keep one journal where I write down everythingggg. I wish I had separate journals but I find it so easy to only keep one journal in my bag. I jot down notes, grocery lists, phone numbers, story ideas, and anything else I need to write down. Not sure why I do this though because it's always so difficult returning to it and trying to find things LOL. Yay to more authortube videos! Would you make a video talking about your writing goals for the year? and will you be sharing more about the novel you wrote during nanowrimo?
According to my journal, I watched one of your videos about journaling on Sun 21 Mar 2021. :) I changed to your recommendation of the quotidian box, then that morphed into separate boxes for acquisitions, expenditures, notes (including notable news of the day) and then the reflections. That morphed into highlights/news/notable things in a different pen colour to the general reflections, which is where I'm at now. But because I use fountain pens with many different ink colours, I started losing track of the highlights, so started underlining key things. This video is timely because it's reminded me to go back to your method because that actually had more value when I'm flipping back at older entries.
I started keeping a journal after I got hooked on Thoreau and company. On my journal's front page, I always warn those who might read my journal. I warned them that if they pissed me off they will not like what might be written about them in my journal and that because they were warned there was no coming back at me and complaining. Oh, so freeing to let the anger that I can't say to their face fly out onto the page. There is a lot more beauty in my journal than the ugly anger. I am looking forward to your writing videos. Thanks, Steve.
as someone who alternates between thinking he can’t write (despite the desire) and the overly philosophical journaling of an 18-25 year old man, this video was needed. I look forward to more “Authortube”!
So agree!! I have kept one since I was in my 20s. 50+ years. Kept me sane and has become a pleasure at times. Look forward to your thoughts. Blessings.
2023 was the first year i kept up a weekly journaling practice!! this year, i am hoping to do more journaling!! i do a combination of a physical and digital journal. your idea of having a bulleted list that goes through what you did in the day and then using the rest of the page for your thoughts is not something i have considered and is something I will definitely be trying in tomorrow's journalling session :)
I journal every day, words, sketches, stickers etc. I would be lost without them. I go through at least two 250 page A5 Leuchtturm journals a year, love them. But anything is good to journal with. All one needs is paper and a writing instrument.
I keep a journal, but I'm always interested learning more about journalling and writing generally. It's late her and I have a funeral 50 miles away to attend in the morning, so I'll look forward to watching tomorrow.
I keep my journal as a document on my computer so it won’t wind up in some archive sometime in the future. As a social historian, I was reading diaries by non-famous people all the time, and I got really inhibited by the idea that I was somehow responsible for writing to future academics about our current culture and society. Switching to computer seemed so freeing and temporary. Perhaps I will try a notebook again this year, though, now that I have reset my journaling perspective.
This is such a good video. I recently picked up my journal writing again after a break, feeling more inspiration from recently starting to read Sylvia Plath's journals. My favorite bit of keeping mine is keeping a reading log, it gave me great comfort to see a full completed analog list for 2023 and some of 2022. I will try out this division format you suggest Steve, it looks great and promising. And also as you say in this video-- it's been great fun feeling the writing process unfold in my head and grow into something more fun and easy, and it hasn't even been long. Just the consistency is doing that.
My problem isn't that I don't think I'm creative. My problems are that I 'don't think I'm creative enough', and even when I'm in a creative mode, I know that I 'lack the skill to execute my creativity to a decent level'. Everything I create is mediocre, at least by my own standards. If I can do it, then it must be crap. And some people say that's all mental and they seem to love what I do, but anyone I respect seem to completely dismiss anything I do. So I must only be pedestrian at best....and otherwise terrible enough to be praised by non-readers who only picked up my work because they've known me for so long.....
Today was the anniversary of my first baby boy (Harvey, a truly beautiful German shepherd, who was undeniably a truly good and loving boy) passing away. He was only 4 years old, and had seizures for his whole life. I'm both glad and devastated to have been there at the end, and I wish I'd documented every magical moment I had with him. He genuinely saved my life and reinvigorated me with meaning. He loved his walks, and loved 'chubb rolls' as a treat. Thankfully he had it twice in his last week, and he did a little excited butt-waggle dance whenever we gave it to him. It was so sweet, and that will always be my fondest memory of his last few days. I did everything I could, and despite that, I'll always feel like I failed him at the end. Rationally, I know that's not true.... But you always feel like you could have done more....
Steve, you didn’t tell us how keeping a journal is a pathway to enormous wealth.
HAH! Sorry! I'm saving that for my Elite-tier Patreon members!
I am a letter write and love it. There is something so nice about telling your friends about what is happening to you and in your life and then sending it off to them in the post. Then there is the excitement you get when the reply letter comes popping through the letterbox to you.
I have kept some journals over the years but not every year. I definitley did it for my 40th year and still have those notebooks. I like the ideas of how you showed how you journal. Thank you for sharing.
I took up journaling again during the pandemic when our state's historical society asked if people would journal and then share with them. I realized there was no way I could send it in as it got too personal and raw. I haven't stopped and I just started my 9th volume this week. As a kid I journaled but a snoopy mother put a halt to that. Sometimes I wish I had those yet but they went up in smoke years ago.
Hello Steve,
Thank you for doing more videos about writing this year. Really apreciate it!
Great idea, journaling on blank paper.
I keep one journal where I write down everythingggg. I wish I had separate journals but I find it so easy to only keep one journal in my bag. I jot down notes, grocery lists, phone numbers, story ideas, and anything else I need to write down. Not sure why I do this though because it's always so difficult returning to it and trying to find things LOL. Yay to more authortube videos! Would you make a video talking about your writing goals for the year? and will you be sharing more about the novel you wrote during nanowrimo?
i‘ll start one like yours
thank you for the advice
According to my journal, I watched one of your videos about journaling on Sun 21 Mar 2021. :)
I changed to your recommendation of the quotidian box, then that morphed into separate boxes for acquisitions, expenditures, notes (including notable news of the day) and then the reflections.
That morphed into highlights/news/notable things in a different pen colour to the general reflections, which is where I'm at now.
But because I use fountain pens with many different ink colours, I started losing track of the highlights, so started underlining key things.
This video is timely because it's reminded me to go back to your method because that actually had more value when I'm flipping back at older entries.
I started keeping a journal after I got hooked on Thoreau and company. On my journal's front page, I always warn those who might read my journal. I warned them that if they pissed me off they will not like what might be written about them in my journal and that because they were warned there was no coming back at me and complaining. Oh, so freeing to let the anger that I can't say to their face fly out onto the page. There is a lot more beauty in my journal than the ugly anger. I am looking forward to your writing videos. Thanks, Steve.
as someone who alternates between thinking he can’t write (despite the desire) and the overly philosophical journaling of an 18-25 year old man, this video was needed. I look forward to more “Authortube”!
seconded!
So agree!! I have kept one since I was in my 20s. 50+ years. Kept me sane and has become a pleasure at times. Look forward to your thoughts. Blessings.
2023 was the first year i kept up a weekly journaling practice!! this year, i am hoping to do more journaling!! i do a combination of a physical and digital journal. your idea of having a bulleted list that goes through what you did in the day and then using the rest of the page for your thoughts is not something i have considered and is something I will definitely be trying in tomorrow's journalling session :)
I journal every day, words, sketches, stickers etc. I would be lost without them. I go through at least two 250 page A5 Leuchtturm journals a year, love them. But anything is good to journal with. All one needs is paper and a writing instrument.
Thank you. This was very helpful. I look forward to more writing videos this year.
This is exactly what I needed to inspire me to get back to daily journaling :) would love more writing videos from you
I keep a journal, but I'm always interested learning more about journalling and writing generally. It's late her and I have a funeral 50 miles away to attend in the morning, so I'll look forward to watching tomorrow.
This is such an interesting and helpful structure to follow re journalling. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it so explained. Thanks Steve
I keep my journal as a document on my computer so it won’t wind up in some archive sometime in the future. As a social historian, I was reading diaries by non-famous people all the time, and I got really inhibited by the idea that I was somehow responsible for writing to future academics about our current culture and society. Switching to computer seemed so freeing and temporary. Perhaps I will try a notebook again this year, though, now that I have reset my journaling perspective.
This is such a good video. I recently picked up my journal writing again after a break, feeling more inspiration from recently starting to read Sylvia Plath's journals. My favorite bit of keeping mine is keeping a reading log, it gave me great comfort to see a full completed analog list for 2023 and some of 2022. I will try out this division format you suggest Steve, it looks great and promising. And also as you say in this video-- it's been great fun feeling the writing process unfold in my head and grow into something more fun and easy, and it hasn't even been long. Just the consistency is doing that.
I haven’t kept a journal in numerous years but might this year. Look forward to your writing videos😁👍🏾 have a great week
I heard a saying that goes something along, as long as you think the past you was an idiot, you are doing all right :D
A journaling video and a sci-fi list all in one day... Could it be that you are actually Jared Henderson?
Next up: professorial facial hair and soft-focus backgrounds!
Jack La Lane. Haaaa! How many of us know who you are talking about?!
My problem isn't that I don't think I'm creative. My problems are that I 'don't think I'm creative enough', and even when I'm in a creative mode, I know that I 'lack the skill to execute my creativity to a decent level'. Everything I create is mediocre, at least by my own standards. If I can do it, then it must be crap. And some people say that's all mental and they seem to love what I do, but anyone I respect seem to completely dismiss anything I do. So I must only be pedestrian at best....and otherwise terrible enough to be praised by non-readers who only picked up my work because they've known me for so long.....
Today was the anniversary of my first baby boy (Harvey, a truly beautiful German shepherd, who was undeniably a truly good and loving boy) passing away. He was only 4 years old, and had seizures for his whole life. I'm both glad and devastated to have been there at the end, and I wish I'd documented every magical moment I had with him. He genuinely saved my life and reinvigorated me with meaning. He loved his walks, and loved 'chubb rolls' as a treat. Thankfully he had it twice in his last week, and he did a little excited butt-waggle dance whenever we gave it to him. It was so sweet, and that will always be my fondest memory of his last few days. I did everything I could, and despite that, I'll always feel like I failed him at the end. Rationally, I know that's not true.... But you always feel like you could have done more....