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Journaling - The Write Stuff For You?

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I used to maintain my journal in the form of poems until mid-2020. And I have not written anything since then. I used to write down my feelings and activities in the structure of various poems, following the writing prompts of the Miraquill app to keep the writing fun going. Then as the time passed, I was not able to maintain the regularity due to frequent writer's block. As a proxy, now I doodle or make small paintings as per time.

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EllAmster | @ellamster | Jun 11, 2022

That sounds nice though, especially the doodling and painting! Do you have an example?

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Ginger, Volunteer Mentor | @gingerw | Jun 11, 2022

@maxxr Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect! Thank you for sharing. I wonder if the lockdown and pandemic played a part in the writer's block?

The other day I came across my "bag of prompts". Quotes, an image, even just a word jotted down. This looks like a good weekend for me to dig into it and pull something out. Sometimes I take a sentence that stumbled across my desk, and write about it, using it like a launching point.
Over the years I have accumulated books and such about journaling, and refer to them from time to time as a refresher.

Doodling or painting can get as expressive as words. I am always amazed at how 26 letters, repeated in readable form, plus grammar, can be so ever-changing. And life-changing.
Ginger

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