February 23, 2012

Gifts to Get A Writer

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So you have a writer in your life that you would like to get a gift for? You came to the right place because as a writer myself, I can assure you, we are fairly easy to please on the gift front. It’s important to realize that someone who loves to write, whether that’s on [...]

Writing a Personal Journal: It’s in the Details

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As a prolific writer, I find myself drawn to reading other journals and letters from people of the past. If the book says, Personal Diary or Personal Letters of so and so, I buy it. Virginia Woolf was a prolific writer herself, both as her ‘work’ and on a personal level. It was reading a [...]

Dear Diary Dates: Lessons in Journal Writing

Under the Surface of Writing

Looking back over my writing life, I can see stages where my personal evolution of style, purpose and attention in all things I’ve wrote shifted. I hesitate to claim the simple act of aging has been the stepping stone to my writing maturity because I’ve come across people far younger than myself who already contain the wisdom I wish [...]

Journals are Binding

Start with a Good Binding

Journals are the backbone of a personal history. Nothing says individual experience more than, Dear Diary, backed up by writing that pours from the mind and heart. I have journals for every need. Random thoughts, sketches, poetry, stories, day to day meanderings and simple observations to name a few. No matter how many journals I acquire, I’m [...]

Writing From Both Sides

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Every Website must have a beginning and I’ll make this entry simple. Writing by hand is the black and white premise of Patrons of The Pen. Maybe it’s contradictory to write about handwriting via a computer…out on the Internet, but I believe the two can meld together. I know I’m not the only one who has [...]