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Writing Diaries
Keeping a diary is highly beneficial for writing, as it helps develop a regular habit, improves skills, and serves as a source of creative inspiration.
- Establishes a Writing Habit: Regularly writing entries, even short ones, helps build discipline and makes the act of writing more natural and less daunting.
- Improves Writing Style and Fluency: Consistent practice in a private, non-judgmental space allows writers to experiment with their “authorial voice” without worrying about grammar or external expectations, which ultimately leads to more confident and fluent expression.
- Generates Ideas and Inspiration: A diary acts as a repository for random thoughts, observations, ideas, and experiences that can be revisited later and developed into stories, characters, or plot points. Famous writers often use journals to explore anxieties and work out ideas.
- Enhances Self-Awareness and Reflection: The process of reflecting on thoughts, emotions, and experiences helps writers better understand human nature and their own perspectives, which is crucial for creating relatable and complex characters and narratives.
- Provides a “Brain Dump” Space: Writing down daily worries or plot holes in a diary can help clear the mind, making it easier to focus on the main writing project with clarity and renewed energy.
- Serves as a Record for Future Reference: Diaries create a valuable personal archive. Rereading past entries can offer a fresh perspective on past events or ideas, which can be a rich source of material and help chart personal growth over time
Write Diaries for Your Children 05
Kelly DuMar, M.Ed.
This summer I spent of a lot of time in my father’s garden, gratefully picking the lettuce, tomatoes, acorn squash and other delicious vegetables he grows in super abundance there. Often, I would visit his garden just before dinner, to see what I would have for dinner, when the birds were noisy, the sun was still hot on my shoulders and a slight breeze would blow up to cool me down. One of my daughters would very likely be with me.
Write Diaries for Your Children 04
Kelly DuMar, M.Ed.
Often we encounter obstacles when we’re working to achieve something we want very much. Tell your future child the story about an obstacle you encountered in working toward bringing this baby into your life.
Write Diaries for Your Children 03
Kelly DuMar, M.Ed. The Wishing Well: Sit down in a comfortable place, open your child’s diary, write the date, and imagine yourself pitching 3 pennies into your magic wishing well. What three wishes would you wish for the child coming into your life? If they are metaphorical or symbolic rather than real or concrete things, that’s fine – imaginative language can be revealing and inspirational. Do these wishes have to do with the present, the near future, or the distant future? Write to your child about the three wishes and reflect on why you wish these things.
Write Diaries for Your Children 02
Kelly DuMar, M.Ed.
As a mother in a recent workshop shared, sometimes the child we are expecting is not our first, but our second or third. Perhaps the enthusiasm about welcoming this new baby is dimmed by the moment-to-moment care taking requirements of the children already very actively in your life at home.
Write Diaries for Your Children 01
Kelly DuMar, M.Ed.
Have you ever longed to ask your parents, “What was I really like as a child?” Some day, your children will ask this question of you. If you write diaries for your children as they grow, you will be preserving memories and saving your child’s unique stories to treasure for many years to come.
You Can Write A Short Story: Part 1 The Story Idea
Linda S. Dupie
So, you want to write a short story. There is more to writing it, than just telling a story. Have you heard the phrase “Show, don’t tell?” If you haven’t, then remember it. Show; don’t tell means to use your characters to convey the story through their actions and dialogue.
You Can Write A Short Story: Part 2 The Meat of the Story
Linda S. Dupie
Many writers call the middle the meat of the story, but I like to think of it as an OREO cookie. The creme filling is what holds the ends together, just as the middle of your story should bring the beginning and ending of your story together.
You Can Write A Short Story: Part 3 The Climax
Linda S. Dupie
You’ve worked hard on your story, now it’s time to round out the story with your ending. This is the time to exit your story gracefully.
Various Types of Writing for Young Writers
Mary Ellen Allen
So often we or our students think of writing as composing poetry and fiction stories. Usually we don’t consider non-fiction pieces, interviews, reports, essays, letters, and other similar forms. When youngsters say, “I can’t think of a story,” suggest other types of writing which might dispel their “writer’s block.”
Keeping an Idea Book
Mary Emma Allen
Youngsters often are intimidated by the idea of writing, whether it’s a story, poem, book report, non-fiction article. However, there are a number of ways to take away some of the dread of writing.
Keep a Clipping File
Mary Emma Allen
I keep a clipping file for my own writing and suggest that teachers do this to use in the classroom. Also encourage older student writers to keep their own files. When I teach writing in schools, I often pull out my clipping folder for youngsters to use.
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