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A Creative Journal

Archive for March 2006

March 31st, 2006

First Freaky Friday

Today is Friday. In honour of this day I’ve decided to create Freaky Friday for you. I’m hoping you’ve seen the film Freaky Friday. If so you’ll easily fall into what I intend to do here each Friday. If not, well, perhaps I’ll need to explain more. Freaky Friday, either version, is the story of […]

By Heather Goldsmith -- 98 comments

March 30th, 2006

Creating Real Characters

One of the best writing exercises you can use your journal for is creating characters. You might like to sit where you can observe people interacting and going about their daily lives. I like coffee shops for this reason. Not only can I listen in on conversations, but I can also watch people interacting.
Things […]

By Heather Goldsmith -- 0 comments

March 29th, 2006

Red Castle Templates

Another great online resource you should keep your eye on is at Redcastle.com. I’ve downloaded useful templates and other free software to use in my journal, mostly for my visual journals, but it’s still a useful place to know about. Keep your eye on their website, too. You might like to make a purchase. They […]

By Heather Goldsmith -- 8 comments

March 28th, 2006

Journal Writing Adventures

The idea of taking adventures specifically for the purpose of renewing yourself and your perspective is not a new idea. Both Julia Cameron in her book Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity and Judy Reeves in A Writer’s Book of Days: A Spirited Companion and Lively Muse for the Writing Life suggest exactly […]

By Heather Goldsmith -- 0 comments

March 27th, 2006

Be Prepared for the Unexpected

Yesterday morning at church I was rostered on to mind the smaller babies in the church nursery. I hadn’t remembered to check the roster so I also hadn’t expected to miss out on the morning sermon. Not that it turned out to be much of a problem. I ended up with only two little boys […]

By Heather Goldsmith -- 0 comments

March 25th, 2006

I Will Always Remember…

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By Heather Goldsmith -- 1 comment

March 24th, 2006

Journal Writing Survey

Pamela Weatherill has a journal writing survey for you to fill out on her blog and research project The New Century Notebook.
“From paper based journals like blank books, dated diaries, travel diaries, scrapbooks and visual diaries to the electronic journal formats such as electronic diary software, word processing files kept on computer and on […]

By Heather Goldsmith -- 2 comments

March 23rd, 2006

More Info on Scented Pens

Last month I wrote about the scented pen my mother gave me as a gift. Thanks to Amanda I can now share with you where to purchase these gorgeous pens for writing in your journal. This friendly and helpful lady left the info in the comments section, but here’s the live links for easy clicking:
Brightbluemoon.com
Franklincovery.com
Mileskimball.com
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By Heather Goldsmith -- 0 comments

March 22nd, 2006

Journal Writing for Posterity

If you ever wanted to write your biography and leave it for your family to read and share together posterity.com just made it easier. You will need to pay an annual fee of £7.50, but they claim they’ll look after your stories forever. They take you step by step through the process, so even non-writers […]

By Heather Goldsmith -- 0 comments

March 21st, 2006

Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain was an avid journal writer. He left 22 notebooks filled with various doodles, writings, pictures and thoughts when he died in April 1994. At the time some controversy surrounded his death, but his life is what most of his fans were interested in reading when parts of his journals were published simply as […]

By Heather Goldsmith -- 1 comment

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