[stylist] Journaling

[Lynda Lambert]

Hi Bill,
I imagine I would have discussed this with you because I am very focused on 
journaling in the development of ideas and themes in my own writing.
This year, I started writing specifically about journaling on one of my 
blogs, Walking by Inner Vision. I am developing 50 journal assignments in 
tandem with the blog posts for the year - one per week.  This blog project 
is specifically for someone who has been thinking of writing a faith based 
journal and it helps the reader  to begin.   I call it the "Walking by Inner 
Vision Journal" so clearly this is the purpose.   I find journaling 
valuable as an artist and writer, and in particular for me, my faith 
journey.  My own journals are a source of information for me to use in my 
creative life.

For anyone who may be interested,  you can find my first three articles at 
this site:  www.lyndalambert.com.  I have been getting subscribers to this 
blog nearly every day since I started it in January.   I wanted to do 
something this year as a gift to others, and this is the path I have taken.

Lynda


-----Original Message----- 
From: Bill Outman via stylist
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 8:04 AM
To: 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
Subject: [stylist] Journaling

Good morning, list.



I was going through old emails and ran into the discussion about journaling
I had started back in November about its value.  Several of you made
comments about the topic, and I don't remember completely who said what but
I'll make a few more comments and those who had said various things may
remember who they were.



My currenht journal goes back well before I had that leg injury situation in
October and Novem, which, by the way, healed up well in the end.  I had
discussed the value of the journal in helping me keep straight the medical
treatment issues I was having.  It actually started back in Octoer 2013
precisely because I felt I was spinning my wheels, and it is still going.  I
remember one contributor to this list saying that was why he gave up on the
journal idea after about a year or so.  Usually I do writ something each
day, often several entries, but I have skipped a day occasionally, so this
is fine if that happens.



This is actually the third time I have kept a journal that I can remember.
My senior year year in high school, my first year in Florida after moving
from Illinois, I kept a hand written binder as I had some vision and could
do it this way.  It would have ben much easier if it could have been done on
a computer, but this was in the early 1980s and the personal computer hadn't
really taken off yet.  Then I lost my vision totally shortly after that and
lost access to that material.  That lasted a few months, maybe a year.



My first attempt at this was back in elementary school, and it had a
scientific angle.  I was ansd still am interested in a number of sciences,
such as astronomy, physics and meteorology.  Despite limited vision I had
enough to read with thick bifocal glasses and I had a small telescope for a
couple years, which actually broke after I had taken it with me to the state
school in Illinois when I started attending there in seventh grade.  I had
kept a hand written log of things I observed with it from time to time over
some of the time period I had that telescope.



Someon had mentioned my insights into journals would be a good blog topic.
At this point I don't have one partly because I don't know how to do that
accessibly with Jaws, and it might be overwhelming right now.  As for other
social media, a friend helped me get on Facebook some time back but I don't
know how to find myself there let alone know how to manage an account
accessibly, and I was told by one of the members of my graduating class here
in FL that another one of our classmates is there, and I would at some point
like to check in on her but have no idea how.  As for Twitter I am not ther
currently and don't know how I would manage it.  But that may be for another
time.



As I had said before, journaling does help me keep some level of perspective
on where I have been and the direction I am traveling in life.



Bill Outman





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