25 Journal Pages With Special Bonus Gifts
I love journals and have been keeping one on and off since I was eight. Keeping a journal, or diary as many have called it, can help clarify your thoughts, ideas, notions and problems. It can help manage those overwhelming emotions and reduce anxiety and stress. The ability is there to gain perspective on your thoughts and feelings. A journal can be profoundly personal and something tangible to go back to to relive parts of your life. Your life based on a true story, spread out over time. It is a place to record whatever you wish. Be it your darkest secrets, your first crush, your innermost feelings, how events made you feel or changed your life. It is a friend that is always nonjudgmental and always
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Keeping a journal will also help you improve your memory, spelling and grammar. It will help you focus and in turn helps with critical thinking and problem solving skills. Which helps you become more open to insights you may have missed before. It gets the creative juices flowing. It a tool to see how you have grown and changed. Write down your beliefs, values, emotions and goals. This will help you to better understand your relationships to those things. In return you will see what is important to you and what is not so important.
You can also use your journal to write down your goals, the brilliant ideas you have for projects, to-do lists, done lists, plans for the future, poems, stories and study notes. You can also keep collections such as leaves or flowers (see the bottom of this post for links to make a leaf or flower collection). A journal can be so much more than writing down your thoughts. It is multi functional. Who does not love
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One in the portrait style and the other in landscape. These are great if you need a visual of a project, doodling or are using your journal as a sketch journal. I have also printed out these pages on card stock for collecting plant samples such as leaves or flowers. If you love this idea check out the links at the bottom of this post. Sketch Page - Is a full page to draw, sketch, doodle, plan or for whatever you can imagine. Weekly Journal - This page is great for those of you that just want to write down the highlights of a day or use it to recap the week. The boxes on the side can be used for drawing, to-do lists, goals, or what 's coming up next week. Bullet Journal Page - Bullet journals are popular and several people have written posts on how to keep one. I tend to use this page for the many lists I like to make and remember. Orange Line Pages - Sorry I just did not know what else to call them. I made three pages, from my popular pages, with orange writing lines instead of black. These can be used for the whole journal, holidays, or special days you want to stand out in your journal.
The Blank Titles Journal - In our Orange Blossoms and Butterflies
I keep my journal hidden; the script, the drawings, the color, the weight of the paper, contents I hope never to be experienced by another. My journal is intensely personal, temporal and exposed. When opening the leather bound formality of Alice Williamson's journal a framework of meaning is presupposed by the reader's own feelings concerning the medium. Reading someone else's diary can be, and is for myself, an voyeuristic invasion of space. The act of reading makes the private and personal into public. Yet, for Alice Williamson and many other female journalists of the Civil War period, the journal was creating a public memory of the hardship that would be sustained when read by others. The knowledge of the outside reader reading of your life was as important as the exercise of recording for one's self; creating a sense of sentimentality connecting people through emotions. (Arnold)
The small tan bound book covered by a canvas or burlap material has a small loop on one side, probably for a writing utensil, although there is no utensil found with the diary. The pages are lined with thin, horizontal blue lines and 3 vertical thin red lines, on on the left and two to the right sides of the page, although the entries pay no attention to
Joan Didion in her essay, “On Keeping a Notebook”, stresses that keeping a notebook is not like keeping a journal. Didion supports her claim by describing entries that are in her notebook. The author’s purpose is to enlighten the reader as to what a notebook is. The author writes in a nostalgic tone for those who are reading the essay, so that they can relate to her. She uses rhetorical appeals; such as flashback, pathos, and imagery to name a few. By using these devices she helps capture the reader’s attention.
Author, Joan Didion, in her essay, On Keeping a Notebook, expands the importance of keeping a notebook. Didion’s purpose is to elucidate why having and using a notebook is essential and give examples of how to keep one. She adopts a forthright and didactic tone in order to emphasize notebook keeping with her audience. Didion provides rhetorical question, flashbacks, and the use of pathos to support the purpose of writing her essay.
The first sketchbook I received consisted of an average eight by eleven inch Pacon brand for two dollars. This cheap, paper sketchbook became one of my precious treasures throughout my life. As a child, pictures introduced themselves to me in various forms. Paintings, wallpaper, newspaper comics, manga, cartoons, picture books, and many more. When I saw all these beautiful images and drawings, I began my journey through the creation of my own works of art.
The author states, that by journaling an individual can begin to express the activities of the heart and start the process of becoming informed by what is known as the imaginal method in psychology circles. This method is a form of emotional exploration of interactions, relationships, and ideas. The ultimate goal of the imaginal method is to become aware of those inner suppressed emotions that affect relationships and perception. Utilizing this process, an individual would then reflect on ideas and thoughts that have been captured during the free-write period of journaling. Quite often what is revealed can be quite surprising and transforming at the same
I’ll admit that I may not have written a weekly journal every week and I may or may not have waited till the day before they were due to finish any of them. I like to pour over my papers and make them a work of art, but I have to remember that some papers are like doodles on napkins and in most cases they are drawn just to be thrown away.
making a final copy. In order to create a good paper you need organize your
For the study, writing a reflective learning journal helps me: bring together theory and practice and yield better understanding of the course material while for my development as a successful and independent learner, it helps me: See my strength and weakness
Gilman, Charlotte. "The Yellow Wall-Paper." Literature and the Writing Process. Eds. Elizabeth McMahan, Susan X Day, and Robert Funk. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice, 1996. 105-115.
When I was younger I did not have a journal. I was an only child, so I did not feel the need to hide my personal belongings. As I grew older I was diagnosed with a severe form of anxiety. I did not know how to cope with my feelings. When I was told to visit a therapist, I had mixed emotions on attending the sessions, because I did not like the idea of opening up to a stranger. My therapist thought writing down my daily emotions in a journal would help me to learn how to process my thoughts. Joan also stated in her piece of work that she felt expressing her feelings through a journal is healthy. As time went on, and I became older I started to learn more about myself. Keeping a journal has helped me tremendously in my daily life. It has taught me what triggers my anxiety, allowed me to figure how to prevent it, but also gave me a time that I can call "me time”. + Having read Joan Didion’s “On Keeping a Notebook,” I am going to discuss the importance of
Choose a topic that you enjoy and remember. “Scrapbooking is all about telling a story”, (Buckley 2). Start with a small recent event. Remember these are your memories so use what is important to you. Next, choose your album size. Then pick out the pictures you are going to use and design your layout. If you have many photos you may need to crop or trim down your photos. If you only have a few pictures try to make the photos the stand out from the other elements on the page. If you totally don’t know any ideas of your own, you can look for layout ideas online on Pinterest. You will use your supplies and tools to create your page. Once you decide on how you want your page to look. Glue everything down and be sure to journal on the page. If it is troublesome there should at least be the name of the person in the photo, the event and
Writing preserves ideas for future evaluation (Nowacek). An individual’s mind would be cluttered with thoughts – both good and bad – if he or she was unable to put them down on paper, organize them, and return later to evaluate them. Upon a second fresh look, one might discover that the idea he or she had had previously was worthless.
Most people question the purpose of writing a journal. People who write a journal keep it to fulfill a basic human need – “self expression and reflection” (Sagan 1). Writing is known as one of the easiest ways to express your personality and who you truly are. You can write in a journal without having anyone judging you – unless you chose to have someone else read it of course. You may reflect on your writing while you are writing your journal/diary entries. Then, once you have expressed your thoughts, you can even go back to your past entries to reflect on what you have said before. Reflecting on your writing can help you develop as a person. It helps you think through a situation and possibly solve it. Reflections help generate ideas for how to improve as an individual. But really, it’s entertaining to re-read past memories and see how much...
The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.