{"id":17921,"date":"2019-12-04T10:03:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T10:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefabulous.co\/qa\/do-you-write-in-your-journal-regardless-of-if-you-have-something-substantial-to-say\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T15:48:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T15:48:09","slug":"do-you-write-in-your-journal-regardless-of-if-you-have-something-substantial-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefabulous.co\/qa\/do-you-write-in-your-journal-regardless-of-if-you-have-something-substantial-to-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you write in your journal regardless of if you have something substantial to say?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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August C.<\/div>\n
ABSOLUTELY. Usually once you actually start putting words on the paper, there will be things to say. If you have trouble thinking of what to say, don\u2019t. Don\u2019t think about it too much. Think of it as writing a note to yourself. Remember, you ARE your audience.
\n I usually write whatever I was thinking about during the day. If I have no specific thought I want to explore, I write what I did that day.
\n If you have nothing to say, try this. Set a timer for 10 minutes. Write until the timer goes off. The trick is to keep your pen moving, do NOT go back to read until the end; don\u2019t worry about wording, punctuation, etc.
\n When the timer rings, you will have found something to say, and it may surprise you as to what you ended up saying.
\n The most important thing is to keep writing; if you get stuck, write the same word over as many times as it takes for the next words to come to you. And I promise they will.
\n (What you\u2019re doing is called \u201cfreewriting\u201d if you want to look it up. I taught writing for 30 years, and it invariably works to capture thoughts before they escape.)<\/div>\n<\/div>