Angela Booth's Writing Blog: Your writing journal: your most important writing tool

Angela Booth

Story Spinner: Fiction Ghostwriting
Story Spinner: Build A Lucrative Fiction Ghostwriting Business In 7 Days

Set the foundations of a six-figure writing business in just seven days when you become a fiction ghostwriter .
Write And Sell A Novella In 7 Days
Write And Sell A Novella In 7 Days: Your Blueprint For Success

In today's publishing climate, we're ruled by Amazon's algorithms. The algorithms reward NEW. If you don't publish frequently, sales slow. Then stop.

If you're looking for a way to boost sales regularly, check out our new program, Write And Sell A Novella In 7 Days: Your Blueprint For Success. The program's powerful, practical, and tested. Use it to boost your self-publishing program FAST.
Write Mystery, Thriller, Suspense
Write Your Bestseller: Write HOT Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Word for word, mystery authors earn more than authors of most other genres, including romance.

Check out our new report, “Write Your Bestseller: Write HOT Mystery, Thriller & Suspense”. You’ll discover how, why, and what types of mystery fiction are selling today, and how to develop a mystery writing career.
Short Reads Report
Short Reads’ Secrets: A Short Reads Self-Publishing Report
Did you know that Amazon has two categories for short ebooks? You’ll learn how to make money with short ebooks in this eye-opening report.

Increase your self-publishing income today.

Books: Write Fiction

Angela Booth: Short Fiction Secrets: How To Write And Sell Short Stories (Selling Writer Strategies Book 2)
Writing short stories is a fun and easy way to get started writing fiction — you can get paid to write, in your spare time. If you're new to writing fiction, you can learn the elements of writing fiction — short stories are much easier to control than longer fiction.
Angela Booth: Master Fiction Writing: Craft A Novel in 31 Days: Selling Writer Strategies 4
This program began as a 30-day challenge which I organized in 2010. Hundreds of writers joined the challenge; they wrote novels. You can write a novel in 31 days too.
Angela Booth: Step By Step To Fiction Which Sells: Plotting And Scene Magic
What if you could leave boring fiction forever behind you, so that the story in your head becomes the story on the page? You CAN, when you discover the magic of story, plotting, and scenes.

Do you keep a writing journal?

A journal can be your most important writing tool, because keeping a journal can be therapeutic.

I've covered writing journals and using them extensively on this blog, here are several entries other writers tell me helped them:

* Writing Journal Exercise: Tell a story, solve a challenge Got a challenge in your life? Your writing journal can help you to resolve it.

* Writing yourself sane - kill your inner critic When you start out as a writer, you can be plagued by your inner critic. Here's a tip -- over time, as you become a professional, with commitments, your critic will be silenced, simply because you don't have time to listen. :-)

* Weekly Writers' Journal Prompts: Get emotional Become more in tune with your emotions.

* What am I grateful for, what did I learn in 2007? You can use this journal exercise in any year, of course. :-)

* Weekly Writers' Journal Prompts: Warm up by writing letters in your journal When you're stuck, or can't get started writing, try writing a letter.

* Get creative: log your life Create a life log -- this is a fascinating idea, try it.