ESSAY
Writer — Do you journal? If not, why not?
10 Reasons Why Writers Should Keep a Personal Journal
The exemplar journalers of this world are often seen to be heroes of the pen and notebook and universally admired for recording their life events in a meaningful and consistent way.
They have cupboardfulls of notebooks and say things like, “I don’t go anywhere without writing down the occasional quote or writing up something that happened to me today”.
Then there’s the rest of us. The Beginners who start well, then tail off, or the Stop-Starters who begin journaling, leave it for months, then begin again.
Or the ‘I just need to find the right pen and journal’ types who have a cupboard full of uncompleted journals, or worse, never actually begin.
Then the Bullet Journal Babes we see on Instagram, with their sticking glue, washy tape and cut outs, superb handwriting skills and artistic efforts that make them the envy of their crowd.
As a writer, forget all that stuff. A plain and simple journal is the key to writerly transformation. And wouldn’t you secretly love someone to describe you in this way:
She’s an enthusiastic recorder of life — writes in her journal every day prodigiously, loads her…
