While driving home this afternoon from a visit to the library I had a local radio station on and heard a snippet of news about Courtney Love’s forthcoming memoir. After a little online search I came across the title Dirty Blonde : The Diaries of Courtney Love on Amazon. The book won’t be released until […]
Thanks to Cheri’s Static I discovered an interesting group on Flickr. Cheri shared this blog, A Creative Journal, with her readers as a Lovely Link. Thank you, Cheri. Under my blog name was another link to an Art Journal group on Flicker. There are some impressive journal pages to view. You may even want to […]
The Creative Writing Process, as the title implies, takes you step by step through the process of creative writing. While Allan Kirby aims his lessons towards children, any writer could gain fresh insight after reading these simple instructions. Beginning with the brainstorm and ending with the final copy, there are even worksheets to help you […]
To add to the news about diaries being published, here’s another one for you:
Ra McGuire, a Canadian rocker from the band Trooper, has published a portion of his diary kept while touring 2002-2005. The book, titled Here for a Good Time — On the Road with Trooper and published by Insomniac Press will be launched […]
Just how would you feel to hear your loved one had died on Mt Everest, of all places? That treacherous mountain many have died trying to conquer. I recall hearing the news that one of Australia’s leading climbers, Lincoln Hall, had died on Everest and felt a pang of sorrow for his family. How tragic; […]
Change is inevitable, but it doesn’t mean we’re going to like it. One good reason to keep a journal is to note those changes. I’ve mentioned this in an earlier entry, but felt I had something more to add after an incident today.
The city I live in is becoming less like a community as […]
For the last several months I’ve been searching and searching for this website since I lost the link. At last, tonight, I found it. Charlene Geiss has a useful resource for journal writers with her The Diarists’ Workshop website. The links page needs updating, but there’s still plenty to keep you busy. Make sure you […]
And now even more teens with published journals. Four girls who shared a group journal together during school have published their collection of five journals as a 352 page book. Warner Books published the shared journal entries of the four close friends as The Notebook Girls. The entries were cut to bring out the best, […]
Like many other Australians I watched the interview on Channel Nine last night with the two escaped miners who survived the Beaconsfield mine collapse. One of the most powerful things the men spoke of was the need to write down their thoughts and messages of love for their families.
At the time the two men had […]
Alyice Edrich at The Dabbling Mum website shares 30 Days of Marriage Prompts as a way to get some how-to articles going in your journal; a great place for working on ideas, articles and stories. I’ve already got three workable ideas from the first five questions. Hope you find these questions useful, too. Remember to […]
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