How Journals Inspire Me

We should write, above all, because we are writers whether we call ourselves writers or not." – Julia Cameron

 

Since I was a child, I've had a fascination with diaries and journals.  It's not that I'm a habitual journal keeper—it's that I'm curious and nosey!  I want to draw the curtains, peek into the windows of people's lives, hear their voices, and commune with them. Reading journals, diaries, and old letters lets me do that!

 

In the novel that I'm now writing a tattered journal arrives...