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JournalTalk answers your questions about journaling

Q&A: “Can Journaling Help Me Become a Better Writer?”

JTQA_LogoRaul wrote in to ask, with deep yearning and colorful examples, “Can journaling help me become a better writer?” Both Mari and I reassured him that he’s already on that path, with a significant piece of evidence hiding right inside the four-paragraph question!

For a more detailed response to this question, you will surely enjoy my interview with Danielle Hanna, crime-fiction writer, and author of Journaling to Become a Better Writer.

In his book, 101 Reasons To Write a Journal, the author devotes an entire chapter to thirteen different ways that journal-writing improves your general writing skills, regardless whether you keep an analog or digital journal!  Here are the first ten.

101 Reasons Book Image1. Capture ideas before they vanish.
2. Build grammar, spelling, and vocabulary.
3. Learn how to start, tell, and end a story.
4. Find your sense of humor.
5. Increase your writing speed.
6. Practice writing every day.
7. Develop plot-building skills.
8. Increase your writing confidence.
9. Discover whether you even enjoy writing.
10. Destroy writer’s block.

Please join the dialogue: Post comments (on our website’s comments section) if you have more examples of how journaling has improved your writing.

If you are receiving this in email format, you may also reply with your own journaling questions to be featured on a future episode of JournalTalk. Or, please call and leave a voicemail with your question at 1-805-751-6280 (only normal toll charges may apply). If your question is featured, we will send you a thank-you gift for sharing your voice! (JournalTalk Q&A, Episode #13, September 23, 2014)

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Music: Pond5.com
Voiceover: Thomas Gerrard

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Episode #9: Kids Can Journal Too!

Kids Can Journal Too!

For the past four months, I’ve been sharing my reasons for creating JournalTalk.  But I also want to share how JournalTalk is creating me!  In this episode, I discuss four profound lessons that I’ve learned since starting this project, along with a whole variety of other stories:

Nathan with Niece and NephewAll this, and more, on Episode #9 of JournalTalk!  (June 24, 2013)

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Music: Philip Guyler / John Stax “Bliss” AudioNetwork.com
Voiceover: Tami Egbert and Kym Maher
Logo Art: Wendy Kipfmiller, Snixysnix.com

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