2013 and January Journaling and Memoir Writing Classes Notes and Homework

REMINDER
If you are interested in either one of these classes, it does not have to be January, nor the year 2013. Read this for your time-frame.

2013 STORYKEEPER ODYSSEY CLASS NOTES
Can you believe that for the 2013 Storykeeper Odyssey Class that the first of 12 months are coming to a conclusion? Wow. Time flies. I hope that this time has been worthwhile and that you’ve been able to dive into your 125 memories and are remembering even more by the day. I also hope that you’re writing them down to the side in your “Future Journaling List.”

Read the January Class Notes now, along with the rest of this blog post.

JANUARY MEMORY LAUNCHPAD CLASS NOTES
Can you believe that this is the last week of this journaling and memoir class? We’ve listed our 125 memories and have started to write about each of them in detail. Of course, we will not be able to write a long journaling entry of each in 30 days (unless we did nothing else in our lives, of course). However, by the end of the year, you can have at least 3 types pages of each of those 125 memories. Make this your goal. Or, do more memories if you want. We have a year to cover 125 memories so that we can leave our legacy. That’s one memory every 2 days or stretch it into a 2-year project and write about 1 of those 125 memories every 4 days instead. That way, you can do other journaling and writing as well. Just a thought.

MEMOIR WRITERS
January has been the time to get 125 memories down on the page.

Notes and Homework: Read the January Class Notes. Ideally, you’ll spend this year writing your memoir. Therefore, ideally, you would write and journal  about those 125 memories, every day for 125 days. Then, you can get to the organizing and writing of your memoir for the rest of the year. After all, your first draft or your memoir is actually journaling, particularly with these 125 memories.

CLASS NOTES AND HOMEWORK
If you read the above notes, you know what to do.

Recap: Flesh out your 125 memories. Write them out to at least 3 pages each over the next year. And, make sure to write daily 3 new memories you’ve made each day and put them on your Future Journaling List. And, make sure to add to your Future Journaling List any other memory that comes to mind. Then, once a day, write a few sentences at least of one of those on that list. Once a week, write even more about at least 3 memories.

OPTIONAL HOMEWORK
Participate in this week’s 5-Day Journaling Retreat--even if it’s just your normal journaling time. Read the blog posts and do what they say.

RECOMMENDATION FOR YEARS AHEAD
I recommend doing this every January with a new set of at least 52 memories, one per week, for 2014 (and every year thereafter). After all, you’ve put 125+ on the page already through your daily journaling and since you took items from your Future Journaling List. So, you do not have to do so much this year. Although, the ideal would be to do 125 and start it all again--so you can leave as full of a legacy as possible.

THANK YOU
Thank you for participating in each class. I hope you’ve been able to to get a great deal out of them.

COMMENTS
So, what did you learn this month? I would love to hear from you.

~ Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Memoir Writer