This week’s ten-minute journal

Write without auxiliary verbs.

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If you missed my previous post about the benefits writers can reap from keeping a daily journal, here’s the gist:

Every day, take ten minutes to write about what you did the previous day on one page of a composition notebook.

Be sure to write about actions, not thoughts, reactions or feelings.

Each week, change tack. And watch how much you improve!

The rationale

Writers characteristically face two major stumbling blocks:

1. Getting your butt in the chair.
2. Knowing what to write about when you do.

This approach solves both of these challenges.

Why?

1. Because we all have ten minutes each day. Whether over our morning coffee or before we go to bed (or any and everything else in between), ten minutes is an amount of time we can carve.
2. When pressed for time, it’s hard to know what to write about. Inspiration often stumbles when we feel under duress. By knowing what you will write and from where you will draw your inspiration, you don’t need to sit there unsure. You just write about what you did yesterday.