Short answer: yes. Any writing will help improve your writing. Longer answer: any writing will help but being open to criticism can help more. I know from experience that anyone who stubbornly refuses to accept that their writing can be improved is only standing in their own way. Find a balance between keeping true to your own style of writing and making your writing accessible to your perceived audience. Writing can help clear the junk cluttering up your mind and sometimes a lot of what you write is junk, especially in the beginning. Don’t get so attached to the words themselves that you lose what you are trying to say.
It definitely makes me think more carefully about what I really want to say. Especially as I write more and more by hand.
That depends why you journal. If it is for reflection and actions then not necessarily but if you are doing it to allow creative thought then possibly. The best way to learn to write is to read. It will teach you about what works. Writing for yourself is fine but writing for others takes courage to show what you wrote and accept and gratefully receive any critique without anger
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i don’t think it makes me a better writer but it sure helps with me clear my head of all my thoughts. then i organize them but i don’t use eloquent words for writing.
I don’t write long form or short form narrative in my journal, I created a template that I fill out daily in order to correlate environment, behaviors, thoughts, and moods.
Certainly. It’s the only one way I can write something long. Also, I always have story to write (my impressions of day).
yes i think i can express myself better now then i could before i started journaling and it’s a really good way to write down thoughts i can’t talk to anyone about and i love going back and reading what i wrote a few months back, i always find it very funny.
Yes I believe it does, at least I feel it has been my experience :-) more time writing has meant more time reflecting, more time expanding my vocabulary, more time learning to form better sentences and better express my feelings and opinions etc. Journaling is essentially sharing the story of our own life and that directly correlates with growing in our abilities to share other stories in other ways as writers.
Not sure and I don’t care. Writing my journal is for me the be a better version of myself, and not practice to be a writer.
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