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A Creative Journal

June 28th, 2006

George Washington

George Washington, America’s first president, was an avid journal keeper from an early age. Not that his writings are considered literary, they may even be less than exciting to read, but he did account for his time well. I hope you’ll find the following link to his writings as fascinating as I do. There’s […]

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June 3rd, 2006

Desert Island Surprise

Recently I visited my local library and noticed their Desert Island display, with mystery books in paper bags to take home. I felt tantalised enough by the thought of not knowing which book was inside the bag, so I grabbed one. Imagine my surprise when inside I discovered a book by Peter Corris titled The […]

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April 13th, 2006

Gail Godwin

I finally had a chance to sit down and read the latest copy of The Writer magazine yesterday. The cover story headline about Gail Godwin caught my eye, so I flipped straight to the pages to read; Gail Godwin on turning journal entries into powerful fiction.
The article went on to say that Gail has released […]

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April 11th, 2006

John Wesley

Find excerpts from John Wesley’s personal journals from 1737 onwards here. The blog site is maintained by someone identified as Seymour and leaving only an email contact. I could only access entries from Thursday 27th September 1739. Where John Wesley left spaces of time in his journal, Seymour fills in with sermons and other information […]

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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 […]

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