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Memoir Journal: Day 2 of Life’s New Adventure – The Realization

by Matilda ButlerNovember 24, 2010
Memoir Journal: Day 2 of Life’s New Adventure – The Realization

Matilda continues her memoir journaling, detailing the second day of her move from California to Oregon — a day when the realization hit.

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Journal Writing Sense: Skin Deep

by Amber Lea StarfireNovember 20, 2010
Journal Writing Sense: Skin Deep

In a recent workshop, I was struck (again) by the mono-sensual nature of most of our descriptions. It’s not because touch is not an important part of our lives. On the contrary! Its absence in our writing is most likely due to lack of practice, both in being aware of our sensual touch experience and how to articulate what we feel. And what greater place to practice sensual description than in our journal writing?

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Daily Inspiration for Journal Writing: Judy Collins

by Amber Lea StarfireNovember 13, 2010
Daily Inspiration for Journal Writing: Judy Collins

Judy Collins, famous singer and songwriter said, “I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot… and memory is important.” Journal writing teaches us how to access deep emotion, how to record a scene, and helps us record memories for future use.

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Journal Writing for Memoir: Writing About Real Characters

by Amber Lea StarfireNovember 6, 2010
Journal Writing for Memoir: Writing About Real Characters

When you’re writing in your journal about the events and people in your life — particularly when your intention is to practice writing skills, you are recording a scene, or you think you might want to use your writing for later storytelling or memoir — take some time to think about and describe their traits. Making the effort to record, through writing, the real live people as they are in a particular period of your life will help you later.

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Journal Writing Basics: 10 Reasons to Write Every Day

by Amber Lea StarfireOctober 30, 2010
Journal Writing Basics: 10 Reasons to Write Every Day

The number of reasons to write on a daily basis are as long and varied as one’s imagination. In fact, I have a series of articles on my website, WritingThroughLife.com, dedicated to answer the question, Why Write? To complement that series, I thought it would be fun to put together the following short list of 10 reasons that prove why it’s beneficial — and important! — to write every day.

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Journal Writing Sense: Snapshots as Writing Prompts

by Amber Lea StarfireOctober 23, 2010
Journal Writing Sense: Snapshots as Writing Prompts

In my last post, I wrote about using art and photography to inspire journal writing. For a completely different reason, snapshots also serve well as prompts for your journal and memoir writing. The prompts will vary, depending upon the subject of your picture. Pictures of people will trigger different memories and feelings than of events and, say, pictures of nature.

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Daily Inspiration for Journal Writing: Susan Griffin

by Amber Lea StarfireOctober 16, 2010
Daily Inspiration for Journal Writing: Susan Griffin

As a journal writer and memoirist, I sometimes struggle with the idea that my stories don’t matter. But Susan Griffin — poet, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter — said of writing about one’s own life: “It is only when one writes about the most intimate and seemingly idiosyncratic details that one touches others.”

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