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Journal Writing Sense: Writing From the Heart

by Amber Lea StarfireFebruary 5, 2011
Journal Writing Sense: Writing From the Heart

Journaling about feelings is one way to become aware of the sources and effects on our lives, as well as learn to write from the heart.

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Daily Inspiration for Journal Writing: John Adams on Thinking

by Amber Lea StarfireJanuary 29, 2011
Daily Inspiration for Journal Writing: John Adams on Thinking

Post #27 – Memoir Writing, Journaling – Amber Starfire – Today’s inspirational journaling quote is from President John Adams (1797-1801): “There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord” Thinking […]

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Journal Writing for Memoir: Storing Your Stories

by Amber Lea StarfireJanuary 22, 2011
Journal Writing for Memoir: Storing Your Stories

Post #26 – Memoir Writing, Journaling – Amber Starfire – For journal writers, especially those of us who use journaling as a starting point for memoir, it’s important to think about the safety and storage of our writing. I think about this topic from time to time, because when my mother died I was gifted […]

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Journal Writing Basics: 5 Ways to Get Started and Keep Going

by Amber Lea StarfireJanuary 15, 2011
Journal Writing Basics: 5 Ways to Get Started and Keep Going

5 ways to start journaling and keep writing on a regular basis. These tips will help you keep your New Year’s resolution to journal and write.

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Journal Writing Sense: Writing From the Right Side of the Brain

by Amber Lea StarfireDecember 18, 2010
Journal Writing Sense: Writing From the Right Side of the Brain

Amber Lea Starfire, in this week’s journaling blog post, opens our thoughts to the bridge between the creative, intuitive mind and the verbal expression of it.

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Journal Writing for Memoir: Setting the Scene

by Amber Lea StarfireOctober 9, 2010
Journal Writing for Memoir: Setting the Scene

If one of the reasons you journal is to capture significant events and memories for future memoir writing (or if you just want to capture the memories as fully as possible), you’ll want to do more than just write about what happened. You’ll want to go beyond recording the emotional impact to describing the environment — the scene — in which an event occurs.

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Journal Writing for Memoir: Use Your Journal to Practice Storytelling

by Amber Lea StarfireSeptember 11, 2010
Journal Writing for Memoir: Use Your Journal to Practice Storytelling

Your journal, in addition to being a place to record thoughts, feelings, reflections, and events in your life, is a great place to practice writing memoir using the art of storytelling. When you are journaling about your life you are, in fact, recording stories. And if you have stories that you’d like others to (eventually) read — whether family or a broader audience — why not also use your journal as a place to polish your storytelling skills?

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