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Writing for an Audience?

]]> With internet connection becoming more accesable to more people in more places blogs are taking personal journal writing to another level. This highlights the question of whether such personal information should be read by the general public. In my opinion, there is a big difference between the kind of entries written in a personal journal and writing put before an audience.

All blogs or online journals & diaries are potentially read by someone. Even if that audience is never allowed to participate, they are there reading. Comments allow interaction with this audience. Allowing comments is an open invitation to engage in conversation with the writer. If you don’t hear what these people have to say it doesn’t mean they aren’t reading and reacting to your personal thoughts.

When I first began keeping an online journal I tried to convince myself I was not writing for an audience. Perhaps I wasn’t, but these days I doubt it. The thought of someone reading those entries was always there. I took the time to write those entries on my text only word processor, spell checked them and reread through to see that I’d made sense. The writing was going onto a public arena. I had to look good enough for that, even if good enough was only in my own opinion.

Writing without censoring yourself is another matter. I believe true personal journal writing is the kind you do not write for anyone but yourself. I don’t even believe this kind of writing should be read by family, though my mind isn’t completely settled on that one, yet.

So, what do you think? Are you writing your person journal for an audience? Or is your only audience you? Please share any thoughts in the comments section below.

Heather

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Writing for an Audience?

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Your Treasure Map

]]> Some time ago now I worked through the book The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. One of the many exercises included collaging your goals, hopes and dreams. I found this an excellent exercise for writers and adapted it to work many different themes for workshops I held while part of a writing centre here in Perth.

Today someone from a forum I’m in was kind enough to share an article, Creating a Treasure Map, which is very like the exercise by Julia Cameron. Actually, I found the descriptions in this article more thorough. I hope you use this one for ideas if you’re still thinking about writing your goals for 2008.

Heather

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Your Treasure Map

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Your Creative Journal

]]> While reading blogs online I came across this entry by Eni Oken on keeping a Creative Journal. Her description has to be one of the best I’ve seen for this type of ideas or creative journal. Make sure you have a read.

Joshua Johnson of Junk Creation shows a similar idea with his Blueprint Journal. But whatever you do, catch those ideas in a journal or notebook of some kind. Don’t let them get away.

Heather
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