Angela Booth's Writing Blog: Do More With Journaling

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.

Your journal is a no-risk environment. You can write and draw anything you choose. It’s relaxing and enhances your creativity.

You may be wondering, what should I write in my journal?

The type of journal you use is up to you. You may keep several journals for various purposes, or one journal for everything.

What type of journal?

If you wish, you can create a therapeutic journal. Also called a therapy journal, this type of journal helps you to understand yourself and your motivations; it helps you to work through problems and challenges in all areas of your life.

Your therapy journal can help you to get what you want—once you know what you truly want. As I point out in The Journaling Habit: Achieve Your Goals And Change Your Life In Just Ten Minutes A Day:

… mostly we don’t know what we want. You can make a case for saying that if you knew what you wanted, you’d already have it.

Let’s look at some types of journals which might help your writing career.