Your story matters.
Journal.
~ Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper
Friday, February 8, 2013
Thursday, February 7, 2013
How's Your Week?: A Journaling Exercise or Prompt
So, how has your week been? Has it been what you hoped? Have you accomplished what you hoped? Or have your plans been led astray?
Has it been a good week or a rough one?
You have the rest of today and all of tomorrow to salvage anything you missed or desire. Take advantage of the time.
Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Author
Journalkeeper & Author
1-Day Journaling Retreat Today
Today is another day to devote to some serious journaling. I want to get a lot done on my 121 Days of Prayer Journaling, Book 1 in preparation for the writing conference I am going to that starts next week.
I want to spend some time in journaling to pray and figure out where I am being led with my journaling.
How about you?
How are you?
What do you want to focus on in your journaling today?
Where are you being led? Where are you going from here?
How's your journaling?
Make sure to review your journaling entries as well. Look at the last week, month, 3-months, 6 months, year, 2 years, 3 years, and so on.
Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Author
Storykeeper 2121 Blog and Website: http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com
The Journaling Path Blog Network: http://thejournalingpath.blogspot.com
121 Days of Prayer Journaling Blog and Website:
Email: storykeeper2121@gmail.com
dba Remembering Your Present, LLC & Storykeeper 2121
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
My Main Focus
I just wanted to let you know that the 121 Days of Prayer Journaling Blog and Book are my main focus right now, as I am preparing to go to the writer's conference and leave town for a couple of weeks.
I will post the most at the 121 blog, so please check there.
Blessings,
Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Author
Journalkeeper & Author
Storykeeper 2121 Blog and Website: http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com
The Journaling Path Blog Network: http://thejournalingpath.blogspot.com
121 Days of Prayer Journaling Blog and Website:
Email: storykeeper2121@gmail.com
dba Remembering Your Present, LLC & Storykeeper 2121
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
More Time is Not the Answer
Let's be real here.
We do not need more time.
If we were to get more time, we would fill it up in the way we already are and are not using it best.
The truth is, we need to use the time we have now more wisely.
JOURNALING EXERCISE AND PROMPT
1 Journal your thoughts on what you just read.
2 How do you not use your time wisely?
3 How do you use your time wisely?
4 How can you ensure that all of your time is used wisely?
5 Do you understand that the time you are given is a gift? Therefore, make it count and choose wisely. Now, journal your thoughts.
Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Author
Journalkeeper & Author
Storykeeper 2121 Blog and Website: http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com
The Journaling Path Blog Network: http://thejournalingpath.blogspot.com
121 Days of Prayer Journaling Blog and Website:
Email: storykeeper2121@gmail.com
dba Remembering Your Present, LLC & Storykeeper 2121
Monday, February 4, 2013
Vacation and Writer's Conference Preparations
I just wanted to let you know that I am in the process of preparing to go out of town from the end of this week to the 25 of February or so. Therefore I will start being somewhat of a stranger and will not be blogging as much as I would prefer.
I will not check my Google+ communities and will not be able to post there. Consequently, you might want to check my blogs for the latest information.
I am going home to Colorado for vacation and to see my family. Also, there is a Writing for the Soul Writing Conference the 14-17 of February.
I will try to add pictures to my blog so you can see what I am up to, but will at least blog every other day, if not more.
You might want to take some time to go through both blogs and experiment with your journaling.
Take care.
Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Author
Journalkeeper & Author
Storykeeper 2121 Blog and Website: http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com
The Journaling Path Blog Network: http://thejournalingpath.blogspot.com
121 Days of Prayer Journaling Blog and Website:
Email: storykeeper2121@gmail.com
dba Remembering Your Present, LLC & Storykeeper 2121
A New Day: A Journaling Exercise or Prompt
We have three blessings rolled into one. We have a new day and a new week, along with a new month. We get to choose what we make of all three of them.
So, choose well.
Journal your thoughts.
So, choose well.
Journal your thoughts.
Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Author
Journalkeeper & Author
Storykeeper 2121 Blog and Website: http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com
The Journaling Path Blog Network: http://thejournalingpath.blogspot.com
121 Days of Prayer Journaling Blog and Website:
Email: storykeeper2121@gmail.com
dba Remembering Your Present, LLC & Storykeeper 2121
Sunday, February 3, 2013
A New Prayer Journaling Blog
Check out my new prayer journaling blog listed below.
Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Author
Journalkeeper & Author
121 Days of Prayer Journaling Blog and Website:
Email: storykeeper2121@gmail.com
dba Remembering Your Present, LLC & Storykeeper 2121
Friday, February 1, 2013
Prayer Journaling: This Week
What have you said to God this week?
What has he said to you?
How have you responded?
What have you learned?
'What have you prayed this week?
What Bible verses and/or chapters have you read, studied, and/or prayed this week? Which one jumped out most this week?
Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Author
Journalkeeper & Author
Have a good weekend!
I hope you have a wonderful relaxing, blessed, and journaling weekend!
Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Author
Journalkeeper & Author
* My Storykeeper Odyssey in 2013: Journaling & Memoir
* The Journaling & Storykeeping Encyclopedia of 2013
Email: storykeeper2121@gmail.com
dba Remembering Your Present, LLC & Storykeeper 2121
February Class: Life Story Class: What's in Your Heart?
Welcome to the February Life Story Class. It's about how to journal your life story and how to write a memoir of your life story.
I figured after the intense month of January and the 125 memories, we could use a little less specific of a topic and look at the more general--at first. Then, we will each get very pinpointed as we work through the journaling exercises or prompts this month.
This week, start with these:
WHAT IS IN YOUR HEART: A JOURNALING EXERCISE OR PROMPT: HOMEWORK FOR THE NEXT WEEK
You can either do this literally or figuratively. draw a heart on the page for each of the numbered prompts below. Fill in each with whatever is in your heart regarding that prompt. You might need to do multiple hearts for each number, by the way.
Ask yourself all of the possible questions that come to mind about the numbered prompt.
For instance, take #1. WHAT is in your heart? I would start by writing anything that came to mind until nothing came to mind anymore. Then, I would ask myself, WHAT? Objects maybe. I would then write every object that I thought of that has a place in my heart. What are my favorite possessions? What are my favorite hobbies? What are my favorite foods? What are my... You get the idea. With each question, I would do a new heart.
1 Who is in your heart?
2 What is in your heart?
3 Where is in your heart?
Be thorough. Spends lots and lots of time on this.
HOMEWORK FOR 08-28 FEBRUARY 2013
Then, the next three weeks, we are going to look at each heart and pick a minimum of 3 items there to journal about and how it relates to our life story. How does each item define or describe our lives? How have they made us who we are? What have they meant to us?
That's it.
Fairly simple. It will just take some time. 28 days, as a matter of fact.
Enjoy!
I figured after the intense month of January and the 125 memories, we could use a little less specific of a topic and look at the more general--at first. Then, we will each get very pinpointed as we work through the journaling exercises or prompts this month.
This week, start with these:
WHAT IS IN YOUR HEART: A JOURNALING EXERCISE OR PROMPT: HOMEWORK FOR THE NEXT WEEK
You can either do this literally or figuratively. draw a heart on the page for each of the numbered prompts below. Fill in each with whatever is in your heart regarding that prompt. You might need to do multiple hearts for each number, by the way.
Ask yourself all of the possible questions that come to mind about the numbered prompt.
For instance, take #1. WHAT is in your heart? I would start by writing anything that came to mind until nothing came to mind anymore. Then, I would ask myself, WHAT? Objects maybe. I would then write every object that I thought of that has a place in my heart. What are my favorite possessions? What are my favorite hobbies? What are my favorite foods? What are my... You get the idea. With each question, I would do a new heart.
1 Who is in your heart?
2 What is in your heart?
3 Where is in your heart?
Be thorough. Spends lots and lots of time on this.
HOMEWORK FOR 08-28 FEBRUARY 2013
Then, the next three weeks, we are going to look at each heart and pick a minimum of 3 items there to journal about and how it relates to our life story. How does each item define or describe our lives? How have they made us who we are? What have they meant to us?
That's it.
Fairly simple. It will just take some time. 28 days, as a matter of fact.
Enjoy!
Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Author
Journalkeeper & Author
* My Storykeeper Odyssey in 2013: Journaling & Memoir
* The Journaling & Storykeeping Encyclopedia of 2013
Email: storykeeper2121@gmail.com
dba Remembering Your Present, LLC & Storykeeper 2121
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Use your journal to unwind through the busyness of life
I don't know about you, but there are weeks I am so busy I barely can remember my own name, let alone get everything done that needs to get done, never mind want to get done.
These are the times I know I need a break. Period. But, hah! These are the times I cannot have a break for maybe weeks to months. Sigh.
Have you ever been there?
It seems like life takes over and you are trying to go along for the ride, but you've lost the grip of one hand and are trying to hold on with the other--as you go for the ride.
These are the times that journaling would be a nice reprieve but I barely have time to breathe, let alone journal... Or so I think.
So, how can I unwind and hold on to some of my sanity through these moments? How can I let things go for a few minutes so I can?
1 I try to steal time to journal a sentence here and there throughout my day.
2 I make sure to journal a paragraph before I even get out of bed in the morning and a paragraph before I go to sleep. I want to start my day off with something that I can control and it helps me prepare for my day. Then, I end it with journaling, no matter how late it is or how tired I am--and I sleep better because I let things go. I put them in my journal. I free my mind so I can sleep and not dwell on things.
I am always amazed by doing this journaling helps me get through the busy times with my sanity still intact and I feel much better because of it.
Now, it's your turn. Try it.
What are your thoughts?
~ Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Memoir Writer
These are the times I know I need a break. Period. But, hah! These are the times I cannot have a break for maybe weeks to months. Sigh.
Have you ever been there?
It seems like life takes over and you are trying to go along for the ride, but you've lost the grip of one hand and are trying to hold on with the other--as you go for the ride.
These are the times that journaling would be a nice reprieve but I barely have time to breathe, let alone journal... Or so I think.
So, how can I unwind and hold on to some of my sanity through these moments? How can I let things go for a few minutes so I can?
1 I try to steal time to journal a sentence here and there throughout my day.
2 I make sure to journal a paragraph before I even get out of bed in the morning and a paragraph before I go to sleep. I want to start my day off with something that I can control and it helps me prepare for my day. Then, I end it with journaling, no matter how late it is or how tired I am--and I sleep better because I let things go. I put them in my journal. I free my mind so I can sleep and not dwell on things.
I am always amazed by doing this journaling helps me get through the busy times with my sanity still intact and I feel much better because of it.
Now, it's your turn. Try it.
What are your thoughts?
~ Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Memoir Writer
Are you too busy? Journaling Saves Time
Are you too busy?
Do you have at least an hour a day Monday-Friday, and at least two hours per day on the weekends, of free time?
If not, you are TOO busy.
Do you journal at least an hour a day--and have an hour to two of free time--through stealing time? Try it. It works. I've mentioned it before, but we each have lots of down time in our day--where we are waiting and can journal.
I guarantee if you journal at least an hour a day, you will have MORE free time and will be less busy. Do you want to know why? Your journaling puts your proprieties in order and you start to do what you do in a more productive way. It saves time. Think I'm crazy? Try it for 90 days and get back to me. You'll see what I mean.
Steal some journaling time: when you are on hold, while waiting in a line, while cooking, while waiting for appointments, on break, in the restroom, in the car driving, while exercising, etc. I'm talking journal with a pen or computer--or an audio tape, ion case you were wondering.
Journal more and save time. Trust me. It works. And, you'll be less stressed and anxious, less tired, and will feel more purposeful as well.
How can you beat that?
~ Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Memoir Writer
Do you have at least an hour a day Monday-Friday, and at least two hours per day on the weekends, of free time?
If not, you are TOO busy.
Do you journal at least an hour a day--and have an hour to two of free time--through stealing time? Try it. It works. I've mentioned it before, but we each have lots of down time in our day--where we are waiting and can journal.
I guarantee if you journal at least an hour a day, you will have MORE free time and will be less busy. Do you want to know why? Your journaling puts your proprieties in order and you start to do what you do in a more productive way. It saves time. Think I'm crazy? Try it for 90 days and get back to me. You'll see what I mean.
Steal some journaling time: when you are on hold, while waiting in a line, while cooking, while waiting for appointments, on break, in the restroom, in the car driving, while exercising, etc. I'm talking journal with a pen or computer--or an audio tape, ion case you were wondering.
Journal more and save time. Trust me. It works. And, you'll be less stressed and anxious, less tired, and will feel more purposeful as well.
How can you beat that?
~ Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Memoir Writer
Is Anyone Interested?: A Question for You
Is anyone interested in a blog post series on prayer journaling?
Let me know. Attach a comment at the end of any blog post, email me, or let me know on my Google+ Journaling & Storykeeping Community.
~ Stacy Duplease
Let me know. Attach a comment at the end of any blog post, email me, or let me know on my Google+ Journaling & Storykeeping Community.
~ Stacy Duplease
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Prayer Journaling
What are you praying for right now and who are you praying for?
Do you journal about these things?
What does God say to you about each? Do you write that in your journal as well?
What have you said to God? Have you wrote that in your journal?
What prayers have been answered in full or partially answered? Do you prayer journal about them?
What has God done in your life today, this week, this month, and so on? Do you journal about that?
Do you journal with God as the audience--as your reader?
Journaling is a spiritual practice and discipline. If you open your heart to the Lord every time you journal, you commune with him, draw near to him, seek his face, and listen far more than you talk in your journal. Then,w rite everything he tells you and places on your heart. This makes journaling something very sacred. You will find no problem journaling hours a day.
Read the Bible, journal about it.
Do Bible study, journal about it.
Every other thing listed on this blog in the past, today, and in the future, turn into prayer journaling to God. God cares about the finer and more minute details in our lives--just as much as the big stuff. Prayer journal about everything.
Every time you go to journal, pray to him. Turn your journaling into prayer. This transforms your journal into something even more powerful, amazing, and life transforming. It means you cannot help but be centered on him all day long--and it helps you pray without ceasing.
~ Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Memoir Writer
(Photo Credit: Stacy Duplease 2009-2014.)
Prayer Journaling
What are you praying for right now and who are you praying for?
Do you journal about these things?
What does God say to you about each? Do you write that in your journal as well?
What have you said to God? Have you wrote that in your journal?
What prayers have been answered in full or partially answered? Do you prayer journal about them?
What has God done in your life today, this week, this month, and so on? Do you journal about that?
Do you journal with God as the audience--as your reader?
Journaling is a spiritual practice and discipline. If you open your heart to the Lord every time you journal, you commune with him, draw near to him, seek his face, and listen far more than you talk in your journal. Then,w rite everything he tells you and places on your heart. This makes journaling something very sacred. You will find no problem journaling hours a day.
Read the Bible, journal about it.
Do Bible study, journal about it.
Every other thing listed on this blog in the past, today, and in the future, turn into prayer journaling to God. God cares about the finer and more minute details in our lives--just as much as the big stuff. Prayer journal about everything.
Every time you go to journal, pray to him. Turn your journaling into prayer. This transforms your journal into something even more powerful, amazing, and life transforming. It means you cannot help but be centered on him all day long--and it helps you pray without ceasing.
~ Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Memoir Writer
Do you journal about these things?
What does God say to you about each? Do you write that in your journal as well?
What have you said to God? Have you wrote that in your journal?
What prayers have been answered in full or partially answered? Do you prayer journal about them?
What has God done in your life today, this week, this month, and so on? Do you journal about that?
Do you journal with God as the audience--as your reader?
Journaling is a spiritual practice and discipline. If you open your heart to the Lord every time you journal, you commune with him, draw near to him, seek his face, and listen far more than you talk in your journal. Then,w rite everything he tells you and places on your heart. This makes journaling something very sacred. You will find no problem journaling hours a day.
Read the Bible, journal about it.
Do Bible study, journal about it.
Every other thing listed on this blog in the past, today, and in the future, turn into prayer journaling to God. God cares about the finer and more minute details in our lives--just as much as the big stuff. Prayer journal about everything.
Every time you go to journal, pray to him. Turn your journaling into prayer. This transforms your journal into something even more powerful, amazing, and life transforming. It means you cannot help but be centered on him all day long--and it helps you pray without ceasing.
~ Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Memoir Writer
What's Your Dream and Life Purpose: A Journaling Exercise
What's your biggest dream and what's your life purpose?
How do they define you?
What do they mean in your life?
How are you living them?
How are you taking steps to make them come true--each and every day?
~ Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Memoir Writer
How do they define you?
What do they mean in your life?
How are you living them?
How are you taking steps to make them come true--each and every day?
~ Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Memoir Writer
Journaling is a Gift: A Quote and Journaling Exercise or Prompt
Journaling is a gift we give ourselves and is the most valuable gift we could ever be given.
Use this as a journaling prompt or exercise.
~ Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Memoir
Use this as a journaling prompt or exercise.
~ Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Memoir
Journaling Retreat Tips: What do you do?
How is it possible to have enough to do in a journaling retreat that lasts, ideally 12-15 hours a day for 1 day, let alone anything more than that? Is something you might wonder.
It's easy, if we have lots of choices. So, what are the choices?
* Read the blog post from Monday and all of the links I have there and do them.
* Do lots of Stream of Consciousness writing--where you write for a 10-15 minute block anything that comes to mind. The key is to write fast. If you run out of anything to say, either write, "I don't know what to say," or rewrite the most powerful thing you wrote in the session. And keep repeating either, or both, until you know what to say.
* Do several journaling exercises or prompts. Look throughout this blog. Download a free copy of my book, THE JOURNALING AND STORYKEEPING ENCYCLOPEDIA OF 2013 and do anything found there. Look at the other blogs I have recommended and listed on the side of my blog, including THE JOURNALING PATH blog. Trust me between all these, you have enough material to write for a lifetime.
* Make lists. List your memories, all the people in your life, all your favorite possessions, all of the places you've lived and work, your favorites of anything, TV shows you have watched in your life, movies you have seen, books you have read... Then, do a journaling entry about any and all of them.
* Look at your photographs and journal about them.
* What photos do you not have that you wish you had? Write about them, what happened, what you experienced, and why you wish you had them.
* Go to Flickr and find photos to inspire you and write about.
* Look up inspirational quotes and journal about them.
* Journal anything your heart desires.
~ Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Memoir Writer
It's easy, if we have lots of choices. So, what are the choices?
* Read the blog post from Monday and all of the links I have there and do them.
* Do lots of Stream of Consciousness writing--where you write for a 10-15 minute block anything that comes to mind. The key is to write fast. If you run out of anything to say, either write, "I don't know what to say," or rewrite the most powerful thing you wrote in the session. And keep repeating either, or both, until you know what to say.
* Do several journaling exercises or prompts. Look throughout this blog. Download a free copy of my book, THE JOURNALING AND STORYKEEPING ENCYCLOPEDIA OF 2013 and do anything found there. Look at the other blogs I have recommended and listed on the side of my blog, including THE JOURNALING PATH blog. Trust me between all these, you have enough material to write for a lifetime.
* Make lists. List your memories, all the people in your life, all your favorite possessions, all of the places you've lived and work, your favorites of anything, TV shows you have watched in your life, movies you have seen, books you have read... Then, do a journaling entry about any and all of them.
* Look at your photographs and journal about them.
* What photos do you not have that you wish you had? Write about them, what happened, what you experienced, and why you wish you had them.
* Go to Flickr and find photos to inspire you and write about.
* Look up inspirational quotes and journal about them.
* Journal anything your heart desires.
~ Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Memoir Writer
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Help!!! Zentangles
Does anyone out there know how to do Zentangles? Or do you know any good resources to teach a person who cannot draw how to do them? I want to learn how.
Let me know.
I have found a few, but they are not basic enough for me. I need BASIC as possible. I am lousy with drawing stick figures, if that tells you anything. That's almost not a joke.
Thanks!
~ Stacy Duplease
Let me know.
I have found a few, but they are not basic enough for me. I need BASIC as possible. I am lousy with drawing stick figures, if that tells you anything. That's almost not a joke.
Thanks!
~ Stacy Duplease
The Sign of a True Journaling Retreat
What is the sign that you are taking a real journaling retreat?
Answer: You are still in your pajamas at 10:00 in the morning on a weekday.
~ Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Memoir Writer
Answer: You are still in your pajamas at 10:00 in the morning on a weekday.
~ Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Memoir Writer
Letter to the Lord #1: My Personal Journaling
Good morning, Lord. What a beautiful day it is. Thank you.
Lord, I’ve decided to do a 40-day prayer challenge of praying without ceasing about something or someone for 40 days.
I have no idea who or what I should pray for between now and 02 March 2013. Lord, guide me.
I am just feeling the need to pray--and I am hearing the call to talk with you, seek your face, and draw closer to you.
Guide me. Instruct me. Help me hear your voice. What should my prayer focus be?
I, also, thank you--for the answered prayer on Friday, along with everything that will come because of the answered prayer.
Prepare my husband and I for what is to come, Lord.
Thank you for the ability and opportunity to journal and to teach journaling. What an awesome privilege.
I will set my heart and mind on you today and listen--and will remain open to your prompting as to what my prayer focus should be.
You are an awesome God.
~ Stacy Duplease
Lord, I’ve decided to do a 40-day prayer challenge of praying without ceasing about something or someone for 40 days.
I have no idea who or what I should pray for between now and 02 March 2013. Lord, guide me.
I am just feeling the need to pray--and I am hearing the call to talk with you, seek your face, and draw closer to you.
Guide me. Instruct me. Help me hear your voice. What should my prayer focus be?
I, also, thank you--for the answered prayer on Friday, along with everything that will come because of the answered prayer.
Prepare my husband and I for what is to come, Lord.
Thank you for the ability and opportunity to journal and to teach journaling. What an awesome privilege.
I will set my heart and mind on you today and listen--and will remain open to your prompting as to what my prayer focus should be.
You are an awesome God.
~ Stacy Duplease
Journaling Retreat: Day 2: Letters
I hope your 5-Day Journaling Retreat got off to a good start yesterday. If it didn’t, the beauty is you have today to try to do so.
Today’s Theme is: Letters
Write several of the following letters in your journal. It’s up to you later if you really send them or not. But, you definitely want a copy of each in your journal regardless.
Letter writing is when we write for the sole purpose of reaching out to another. We express our thoughts, feelings, dreams, fears, ambitions, hopes, challenges, and everything in-between. We share a part of ourselves with another who cannot be by our side.
So, what letters are we going to write?
1 Write a letter to each of the 10 most influential people in your life who have helped you become the person you are today. They do not have to be alive, nor do they have to be someone you know. They can be authors, historical figures, etc. You might only get a few done today, but in time, do at least 10 people. Ideally, it would be 25 people.
2 Write a letter to yourself for you to receive the day you are born.
3 Write a letter to yourself to read when you are old.
4 Write a letter to someone who hurt you.
5 Write a letter to someone you hurt.
6 Write a letter to someone who inspires you.
7 Write a letter to God.
8 Write a letter to someone you know who died.
9 Write a letter to your closest friend.
10 Write a letter to someone you haven't seen in years.
11 Write a letter to each of your favorite book, movie, and TV show characters.
12 Write a letter to yourself in 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years, 25 years, and every 5 years until age 110. Where have you come, where are you, where do you hope to be, and so on. And write whatever else you want to say. Be thorough. Try to write at least 3 pages of single-spaced type for each of these letters.
13 Write a letter to your spouse in case you die.
14 Write a letter to your spouse and tell them how much you love them. Remember everything you’ve been through.
15 Write a letter to each fo your children and tell them how much you love them. Remember everything you’ve been through.
16 Write a letter to each of your children in case you die.
17 Write a letter to people of the Bible.
18 Write a letter to anyone else you can think of and for whatever reason.
~ Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Memoir Writer
Today’s Theme is: Letters
Write several of the following letters in your journal. It’s up to you later if you really send them or not. But, you definitely want a copy of each in your journal regardless.
Letter writing is when we write for the sole purpose of reaching out to another. We express our thoughts, feelings, dreams, fears, ambitions, hopes, challenges, and everything in-between. We share a part of ourselves with another who cannot be by our side.
So, what letters are we going to write?
1 Write a letter to each of the 10 most influential people in your life who have helped you become the person you are today. They do not have to be alive, nor do they have to be someone you know. They can be authors, historical figures, etc. You might only get a few done today, but in time, do at least 10 people. Ideally, it would be 25 people.
2 Write a letter to yourself for you to receive the day you are born.
3 Write a letter to yourself to read when you are old.
4 Write a letter to someone who hurt you.
5 Write a letter to someone you hurt.
6 Write a letter to someone who inspires you.
7 Write a letter to God.
8 Write a letter to someone you know who died.
9 Write a letter to your closest friend.
10 Write a letter to someone you haven't seen in years.
11 Write a letter to each of your favorite book, movie, and TV show characters.
12 Write a letter to yourself in 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years, 25 years, and every 5 years until age 110. Where have you come, where are you, where do you hope to be, and so on. And write whatever else you want to say. Be thorough. Try to write at least 3 pages of single-spaced type for each of these letters.
13 Write a letter to your spouse in case you die.
14 Write a letter to your spouse and tell them how much you love them. Remember everything you’ve been through.
15 Write a letter to each fo your children and tell them how much you love them. Remember everything you’ve been through.
16 Write a letter to each of your children in case you die.
17 Write a letter to people of the Bible.
18 Write a letter to anyone else you can think of and for whatever reason.
~ Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Memoir Writer
Monday, January 28, 2013
Journaling Retreat
Every blog post I am doing this week will be to help inspire you to journal. Therefore, do all of the exercise or prompts listed.
Also, search my blog for more journaling ideas if you get stuck and are not sure what to journal. There is lots of material you can find on this blog. Trust me. As it is, while this is a new blog, there is enough material here to keep you busy for years and years.
~ Stacy Duplease
Journal Keeper & Memoir Writer
Also, search my blog for more journaling ideas if you get stuck and are not sure what to journal. There is lots of material you can find on this blog. Trust me. As it is, while this is a new blog, there is enough material here to keep you busy for years and years.
~ Stacy Duplease
Journal Keeper & Memoir Writer
Surprising: A Journaling Exercise or Prompt
What has surprised you, and captured your attention in your journal this month?
This week?
Today?
Please answer all three questions. Then, say why. Be thorough.
Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Author
Journalkeeper & Author
* My Storykeeper Odyssey in 2013: Journaling & Memoir
* The Journaling & Storykeeping Encyclopedia of 2013
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