Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough. ~ Arthur Freed
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Keeping a journal is a good way to keep your fingers active, your brain functioning and also it is a wellspring of ideas for writers. Sometimes as I’m writing in my journal I think, now there’s a good blog post, then I start writing my 500 words for the day for my blog and maybe even get a few more ideas as the journaling continues. ***
Remember that journaling isn’t for the public to read. It’s your private thoughts on paper. It’s the machinations of a day-to-day mom, writer, or worker but either way, your journaling is the secret you that nobody needs to read.
Maybe some of you write in your journal so that other people CAN read your thoughts on your day to day activities, but me, as a writer my journal holds my deepest thoughts and through my deepest thoughts come ideas for a story, usually a short story.
My safe haven is my journal. It is a place I go to, connect with my inner being, sometimes I’m even caught talking to God, and I don’t come out of the ‘zone’ until I feel it is a safe place to go.
I’m not one who likes to carry bitterness around with me; always the pleasant happy-go- lucky person, (and sometimes talkative!) that when it comes time when I feel that bitterness and resentment, confusion, or torment are surfacing in me, I, like a robot, automatically head to my journal, get it all out and find myself relieved of all the tension that was trying to build in the first place.
I’ve said this numerous times, and on many occasions have I relayed this information to you, my reader, writing is an emotional healer. You may be sitting there chuckling at the idea but I’m telling you, if you have a journal, release all the pent up feelings that you are harboring, you will find yourself with a leg to stand on, you will find a part of healing that guess what, you don’t have to pay some Psych doctor for.
Not that I have anything against psych doctors. They can be a great help to the not so sane of the world in need of their services. But for me, there are things that I’d tell my journal that I would never tell another living soul. I’d rather have someone pay ME for my insane thoughts than to give a doctor my thoughts and pay him for me to give him them? There’s something wrong with that idea to me.
I’m a writer, so all my insanities will fall onto the paper like fine drips of blood from a paper cut. My words will roll down the page and color the white sheet in crimson marked with pain and torment, but in the end the white LIGHT of the page will shine through and everyone will grasp the inner me that they thought was such crazy mundane triviality. And the reader will love the tale as if it has seeped into their veins.
It’s what writer’s do. Now Write Right!!!
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Your life may be the only Bible some people read. ~Author Unknown
2 comments:
"I’m a writer, so all my insanities will fall onto the paper like fine drips of blood from a paper cut. My words will roll down the page and color the white sheet in crimson marked with pain and torment, but in the end the white LIGHT of the page will shine through and everyone will grasp the inner me that they thought was such crazy mundane triviality. And the reader will love the tale as if it has seeped into their veins."
That paragraph should be re-posted (with attribution) everywhere there are writers because it IS that important. I've never thought of it before as the "white light of the page"--the core truth--shining through. Awesome imagery.
I'm a journal writer from way back. When I've been hurt, my hand doesn't reach for the phone to call someone; it reaches for my pen and my journal. I truly think of my journal as letters to God. He knows what's in my heart so when I write the absolute worst that I'm feeling He knows that I mean no malice toward anyone, that I just need to write the words in order to release the pain.
Thanks, Joni!
Well thanks Von!
That statement alone made this worth the post it was written in. :)
I love it when I write something and people grasp the meaning!
I've been a journal writer (although I began when it was called a 'diary')
all my life since I learned the pen could be used as an expression of my pain, joy, love, etc.! I've wielded the pen as my sword!
It is and always will be, my emotional healer! :)
Thank you! :)
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