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Day 30: October Journaling Adventure with The Joy of Writing Journal

Today, I invite you to list at least 5 possible ways to support your journaling habit and then imagine your day as journaling impacts how it flows. My Journaling List My list includes: Journal most mornings—first in my dream journal, recording dreams and sometimes interacting with them, then in my journal-journal. If I feel so...  Read more

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Day 29: October Journaling Adventure with The Joy of Writing Journal

Wow. I wrote some really embarrassing things in my list of “things you don’t know about me.” I settled upon something mundane—that I like to garden barehanded, pulling on the roots of [what I believe is] mugwort. I journaled about my experience gardening that day—transplanting Hosta with the help of my son and his friends...  Read more

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Day 28: October Journaling Adventure with The Joy of Writing Journal

Today I ask you—and me—to think of a most exotic, thrilling or memorable vacation spot. Then we write about an experience there, incorporating all our senses. On Day 28, I write about a trip between my first and second year of business school at MIT. I traveled to Japan with two male classmates, one Japanese...  Read more

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Day 27: October Journaling Adventure with The Joy of Writing Journal

Welcome to Day 27 in our community jaunt through The Joy of Writing Journal: Spark Your Creativity in 8 Minutes a Day. In her memoir, Bless Your Little Cotton Socks, Diane Radford, MD shares the quirky sayings of her delightfully inventive Scottish mother. The saying inspired the title of today’s prompt. In my journaling, I...  Read more

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What To Do When “Someone Published a Book Just Like Mine”?

Imagine someone publishing a book so much like the one you’re writing. It could be devastating to discover “someone wrote my book,” but there’s another way to see this as an opportunity. “What do you do when you find out a book was just published that is almost exactly what you had in mind writing? I...  Read more

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Day 26: October Journaling Adventure with The Joy of Writing Journal

Welcome to Day 26 on the journey through The Joy of Writing Journal. Here I share an excerpt from my journey and I hope you will share something about yours—an excerpt, an insight, a challenge, a joy… Today’s prompt invites you to choose a favorite or least favorite room in your home. Then imagine a...  Read more

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Day 25: October Journaling Adventure with The Joy of Writing Journal

Welcome to Day 25 on the journey through The Joy of Writing Journal. Today we explore some of our quirky personality traits and how they help us as writers. The truth is, I just realized that, while I wrote my Day 25 list of quirky traits, I never answered the prompt about how these traits...  Read more

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Join Me for the Fall 2021 Nonfiction Writers Conference!

The online Nonfiction Writers Conference is an excellent resource for navigating the world of book publishing and promotion, so you can get that book into the hands of your would-be readers! This Fall’s conference takes place Nov. 4 and 5, with “Ask-a-Pro” sessions throughout the whole week. Once again, I’m one of the featured experts...  Read more

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Day 24: October Journaling Adventure with The Joy of Writing Journal

Welcome to Day 24 on the journey through The Joy of Writing Journal. Here I share an excerpt from my journey and I hope you will share something about yours—an excerpt, an insight, a challenge, a joy… My dad was a true character with a brilliant mind—a renaissance man, English teacher, musical genius / composer,...  Read more

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Day 23: October Journaling Adventure with The Joy of Writing Journal

Welcome to Day 23 on the journey through The Joy of Writing Journal. Here I share an excerpt from my journey and I hope you will share something about yours—an excerpt, an insight, a challenge, a joy… Months after 5 days in the hospital and a couple emergency room visits on both ends, I journal...  Read more

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