What are some tips on keeping a journal?

Question

I've tried to do this before but I'm so erratic. I'll have entries that are months apart. What are some good ways I can stay structured and maintain regularity in my entries?

Answer 1

writing, at least serious writing is all about discipline.

If you start out trying to write every day you most probably will fail, but if every time you write you write, say 500 words (even if you don't have anything to say) you might get "into" it after a time.

The clarity and meaning will arrive once it is no longer a chore.

good luck

Answer 2

Carry it with you so that you can pull it out and write in it when you are in line somewhere or when you have a few minutes to yourself.

You can also schedule yourself to write in it at a certain time every week -- Saturday morning or Sunday evening.

Answer 3

Get a notebook small enough to put in your purse..if your like me i carry a huge purse...well more long then wide, and it should fit a med sized notebook in it..you will look at it everyday at night or in the morning at work at your desk pull it out and write what happened that day, since something doesnt always happen everyday, then put a thought in there everyday..like something you learned, soemthing you are puzzled about or something you helped someone with that day. maybe put the temp that day or how you broke through on something...or your hopes for that day. Put it by your bed on a stand so you see it everynight, or by the coffee pot to write in it at the kitchen table. Everyone new you meet or fight you are in make it a habit of writing it all down, soon it will become regular to want to run to it and write it down.

Answer 4

I was the esact same way. I carried it around with me but never wrote. it wasn´t until I started keeping it online that it started working for me.

try Pyxlin.com. It lets you keep it online, organize it, and print it into a hardbound book.

Answer 5

write what happens to you each day

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