Monday, July 5, 2010

a book every journal keeper must have.


Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, is all about the practice of journal writing. It is not about how to write short stories, poetry, novels, magazine articles, or anything else as structured as that. It is about the writer, alone with a pen and a notebook, simply writing.


let it change your life.

xx C

4 comments:

  1. do you ever worry that in the future(not when you have passed to that place where you can ever get things wrong ever)...they might read your writings and be shocked at what you have written ...or offended...do you think at all what they might think?????

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  2. yeah I always think should I sensor what Im writing, just in case someone gets upset, but my journals are part of me, lying in them is lying to myself, and that kinda defeats the purpose of a journal.
    xx C

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  3. I don't sensor my writing because I want my children to learn who I really am at the moment. I'm a mother of 2 children 2 years and under and when they read my journals I will be gone and they will know me as a person when they were this small. The things that happen that are racy or embarrassing are what is going to make it worth their while to read them after I'm gone. My grandmother kept a journal and it was very censored and my mother was very disappointed.

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  4. Writing Down the Bones is one of my favorite books of all time. I use it frequently with my students. Thank you for featuring it.

    "Bird by Bird" by Anne Lamott is equally wonderful for getting the creative juices flowing.

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