Writing Short Stories & Essay Writing

Keeping a journal can be a wonderful way to preserve your life story, but choosing the wrong kind of paper can destroy your words before your descendents are ever able to read and enjoy them. Inveterate journal-keeper Megan Fitzpatrick explains. Read more

Stop journal wear and tear with this complete guide to protecting your journals from the elements—and you. Read more

Record your life in sound, image and word. Try adding a dab of the audio-visual to your journaling ways. Read more

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Dedicate a journal to history as it happens. Chronicle your memories and reflections on the moments that define your generation. Read more

Photographs and playbills, flowers from your first love?it’s the stuff your journal is made of. So how do you preserve it? Read more

If you find yourself caught in a rut, let your journal help pull you out. Read more

Don’t forget one detail of your engagement and wedding. Keep a log of the memories and plans that make your “I do’s” special. Read more

An interactive journal is a journal you can use to communicate with someone close about things that are hard to express verbally. Here’s how to use one. Read more

Journal with style by using variations in point of view to enliven your entries. Read more

Does your disparaging attitude extend beyond your journal and into your life, where the bad is all you seem to have, because it’s all you take note of? Read more

Collect the e-mail gems you write and receive, and gather a precious diary of your life, as expressed to your cyber-pals. Read more

Jump off the hamster wheel of life by using your writing time to find the path to a fulfilling future. Read more

Dump your worries and obligations onto paper. Clear your mind, and start living the life you envisioned. Read more

A New Hampshire hospital is recording the stories of its elder patients—for healing and history. Read more

To name is a powerful act. Title your journal — and the years you live. Read more

Here are several ways to fuel creative infernos. Read more

Losing a child is devastating. Here’s the story of one mother who journaled through her sorrow and created a lasting tribute to her baby girl. Read more

In her book Writing Personal Essays, author Sheila Bender gives these tips for those writers interested in publishing their personal essays. Read more

Are your children’s journals off limits? One parent says yes—and here are six reasons why. Read more

Everything you need to be creative, is already locked inside of you. Try this exercise to imagine someone else’s life. Read more

Live a life worth writing about! Venture from your daily routine, and leave this note on the door: Gone Journaling! Read more

Benefit from the experience of sharing your journal writing with others. Read more