I've just run across a wonderful website: Advice to Writers.
On this site I found some wonderful advice for those of us who journal:
"Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up as a brief vignette. Give it color, include quotes and dialogue, shape it like a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end--as if it were a short story or an episode in a novel. It's great practice. Do this while figuring out what you want to write a book about. The book may even emerge from within this running diary."
--John Berendt
So let's try this before our next meeting on August 9th and share our results with one another. Sound good?
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