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

2013 and January journaling classes: Homework and notes

Week 4

Welcome to another week of journaling and memoir writing. I hope last week went well for you and that this week will be even better.

JOURNALING EXERCISE OR PROMPT

* What surprised you last week as you journaled about your memories?

* What new memories did you remember and add to your Future Journaling List?

* What did you lessons did you learn?

* What journaling entry and/or memory made you really happy?

* What journaling entry and/or memory made you sad?

* What journaling entry and/or memory brought peace?

* What journaling entry and/or memory brought understanding? 

* What journaling entry and/or memory made you feel angry? 

* What journaling entry and/or memory made you feel frustrated?

* Which was your favorite memory to write about?

HOMEWORK

* Write about 7 more memories this week. 

* Read this blog post and do what it suggests with your 7 memories: 

http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com/2013/01/2013-and-january-journaling-and-memoir_14.html

STAY TUNED

I will write more blog posts to help inspire you with your journalling and memoir writing.

Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Author

* My Storykeeper Odyssey in 2013: Journaling & Memoir

* The Journaling & Storykeeping Encyclopedia of 2013

The Journaling Path Blog Network: http://thejournalingpath.blogspot.com

Email: storykeeper2121@gmail.com

Bookstore: http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/hisfiction

dba Remembering Your Present, LLC & Storykeeper 2121

2013 and January Journaling and Memoir Class Notes and homework Summary

I just wanted to put all of the class notes here in one blog post to date so you don't have to hunt for them on this blog. These are the homework and class notes. Here they are in chronological order:

12/31/2012

http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com/2012/12/journaling-and-memoir-classes.html

http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com/2012/12/2013-storykeeper-odyssey-class-notes.html

http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com/2012/12/30-days-of-memory-launch-pad-class_31.html

1/1/2013

http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com/2013/01/2013-and-january-journaling-and-memoir.html

1/2/2013

http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com/2013/01/30-days-of-memory-launch-pade.html

1/4/2013

http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com/2013/01/2013-and-30-days-journaling-and-memoir_4.html

1/9/2013

http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com/2013/01/2013-and-january-journaling-and-memoir_9.html

1/14/2013 Week 3 Homework:

http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com/2013/01/2013-and-january-journaling-and-memoir_14.html

http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com/2013/01/memoir-writing.html

http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com/2013/01/writing-your-memoir-steps.html

http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com/2013/01/writing-your-memoir-and-your-idea-list.html

Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Author

* My Storykeeper Odyssey in 2013: Journaling & Memoir

* The Journaling & Storykeeping Encyclopedia of 2013

The Journaling Path Blog Network: http://thejournalingpath.blogspot.com

Email: storykeeper2121@gmail.com

Bookstore: http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/hisfiction

dba Remembering Your Present, LLC & Storykeeper 2121

2013 and January Journaling and Memoir Classes Notes and Homework

Week 3

CHECKING IN: JOURNALING EXERCISES OR PROMPTS

So, how is everything going with your journaling as you mine for the precious jewels of your life--your memories?

Have you started to see how special your memories are--and how they have brought you to where you are today and made you who you are today? Also, have you seen how they shape where you are headed as well?

How is your journaling coming along?

How many new memories have you added already to your Future Journaling List--on top of the 125 original memories we've done in this class?

By the way, if you want to chat about any of this in the Google+ community, even better. 

HOMEWORK FOR WEEK 3

Write about 7 memories this week at least. 

WHAT SHOULD YOU DO WITH WRITING EACH MEMORY? 

I have been quite vague up to here and haven't given you much instruction on how to write down your memories. There has been a reason. I've wanted you to try things your way and experiment to see what works and what doesn't work. 

Well, here is some new information for you to apply to your journaling of your memories:

SOC Journaling (See Stream of Consciousness):

Journaling Exercise or Prompt 

INTRO

If you were to ask me what type of journaling I do most, I would say I do the SOC the most. It's Stream of Conscious Journaling. I think 90 % or more of my journaling is this.

SOC Journaling is writing whatever comes to mind, without censoring or correcting it. It's putting whatever I think onto the page. Sometimes, I use a journaling prompt and/or journaling exercise, but how I respond, is through the SOC.

I try to do a DOC for at least 10 minutes at a time.

I do a separate SOC for every memorable thing I list in my journal each day. Sometimes I do this at the end of the day, sometimes at the end of the week and/or month, whenever I want to journal more about something, and sometimes when I get stuck and don't know what else to journal about. I do a SOC at the end of every JRT (Journaling Review Template) as well.

HOW TO DO A SOC JOURNALING EXERCISE OR PROMPT:

1. Write as fast as you can, however long you can, and don't stop until either the timer goes off, you get interrupted, or you have nothing more to say.

2. When finished, underline or star 3 of the most important points you wrote.

3. Write those 3 points you marked in #2 at the very end of your SOC. This is your reference point of stuff you want to write more about later.

4. Take one of the points listed in 2 and 3 and write more about it at this time--through doing a 5-10 minute SOC (or longer) at this time.

Stream of Consciousness Journaling

DEFINING THE SOC (STREAM OF CONSCIOUS WRITING)

A Stream of Consciousness (SOC) is a journal entry in which you write anything that comes to your mind, no matter how silly, outlandish, irrelevant, foolish, or futile, it may seem. There’s a reason for this; we’ll hit that in a bit. But write it all down even if it doesn’t seem relevant or appear at that moment to make sense.

Just make sure to write fast, don’t stop or even hesitate. Capture on the page anything that comes to mind, whether it’s just single-word thoughts, notions, or complete sentences.

The reason you do this is because you may not know what to write just yet, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t an infant thought there just waiting to be more fully developed in time.

Initially, your first thoughts may seem vague or unimportant. Not so! These are the ‘bare-bones’ thoughts which lead to a more contemplative expression at some point in the future. These thoughts are all gems which must be shaped and cut…fashioned by past events which you revisit—things you have not thought about (but probably should have) for years. The combination of things seemingly blurted on the page, along with the contemplations these entries generate, will expose them in their full brilliance at a later point. But that cannot happen unless you first capture them on the page. This brings us full circle.

For example: in the event you don’t have a fully developed thought, write in your journal, “I don’t know what to write, so I think…” Often by doing just that, you’ll get ideas of deeper things to write about. There will be days when that’s all you write for this exercise, but that’s okay. There will be other days when you do the SOC for an hour straight because you have so much to say. Capture it!

Make sure you don’t edit anything. Don’t worry about scribbles on the page or typing errors as you do the SOC. Just let them go until you’re finished with the SOC. Then, you can go back and fix stuff. Just as importantly, don’t delete anything. Ever. If you ever feel the need to make a neater presentation, that’s great. Just do not discard your rough draft(s).

It is crucial to remember humble beginnings. It is essential to remember origins. Your original thoughts on the page or in blank e-documents, scribbles, errors, and all, are worth keeping for just these reasons. To discard them is to discard your thoughts. Please don’t do that! Your thoughts are emblematic of your life—don’t throw them away!

Keep all of your original work not only to be reminded of things of the past, but also to give yourself the opportunity to track your own progress through a particular series of thoughts or time in your life.

It’s important to remember that a SOC is meant to extend the life of undeveloped thoughts and ideas. Editing is not the goal here—that comes at some point later. It can happen immediately, but sometimes editing your work is what happens days, months, or even years later.

This practice of keeping all your work will help you see your progression later to help you learn and comprehend how you grow. It’s also a great tool for review and personal analysis later. So, hang on to your drafts! It can be a wonderful thing to understand and therefore appreciate where you are by realizing where you’ve been. It can even help you to navigate to where you’re going.

THE “HOW TO” OF THE SOC

~ For 5 to 15 minutes (but of course you can go longer than that, if you wish) first thing in the morning, do an SOC entry. We’ll call this one your “Daily A.M. SOC.”

~ When you’re finished copy and paste what you want to write more about later into a new document/journal and title it what I’ll refer to as the “Future SOC List.”

~ Then, do a SOC any time during your day you get upset, need to vent, or need to work through a problem. Also, whenever you’re really inspired by something or are very pleased with something. Don’t forget to copy and paste what you want to write more about later and put it on your Future SOC List.

~ Finally, do the same thing at the end of your journaling day. We’ll call this one your “Daily P.M. SOC.”

As we discussed earlier, the SOC is a wonderful idea generator. I find it’s the single-most important tool in my journaling toolbox. I can write entire books from one sentence of my SOC. The key is even though it might not inspire you at the time, it’s important to review your SOCs because years later they can inspire you to write about something new and different.

 STRONGEST MEMORIES LISTS

PLEASE NOTE: If at any time you feel too upset to carry on with this journaling exercise, try to add more of a description of your positive memories. If that does not help you feel better, take an hour break. Then, try again. If you still are upset, take the rest of the day off of remembering stuff from the past. You might want to list recent memories instead for a while. List as many as you can. If none of this helps, you might consider talking to someone and see if that helps. Or, vent it out in your journal. My point is, if it is too difficult, do not push yourself too hard. Some discomfort is healthy, but not to the point of depression or fury.

~*~ What in your life do you not want to think about? List it.

~*~ What in your life do you not want to talk about? List it.

~*~ What in your life makes you feel uncomfortable--past, present, and past? List it.

~*~ What in your life do you want to avoid? List it.

~*~ Make a list of the top 10 strongest and most powerful memories in your life for the positive.

~*~ Make a list of the top 10 strongest and most powerful memories in your life for the negative.

~*~ Now go back and write a sentence or two summary of each of the 20 memories you just listed.

~*~ Wait a couple of hours and do your next ten strongest of each. Repeat all of the steps above with other memories you have not listed yet.

~*~ If you feel like it, repeat this until you have every strong memory you can think of written down.

  

Summarize Your Life Journaling

 If you were to summarize your life in 1-sentence, what would it be?

If you were to summarize your life in 2-sentences, what would they be?

If you were to summarize your life in 1-paragraph, what would it be?

If you were to summarize your life in 2-paragraphs, what would they be?

If you were to summarize your life in 1-page, what would it be?

If you were to summarize your life in 2-pages, what would they be?

Memory Snapshot Journaling

This is by far the most beneficial exercise you can for your memories.

* Part 1

1 List in your journal at least 5 memories of the past year you have or haven't mentioned previously. Give each of the 5 memories a memory title, date (or at least approximate season or month as well as year), how old you were, a paragraph description, and how it's shaped your life.

2 Choose 3 of the memories and write a page about each. List the 6 senses of: discernment/intuition, smell, sound, taste, touch, and sight. Also, answer who, what, where, when, why, how, and what-if questions to that memory. (You may also choose to do a SOC about them as well.)

3 Choose 2 of the memories which stand out to you the most and take 3-7 snapshots/photos of the memory with your imaginary camera. If the memory is crystal clear and you remember lots of detail, make it 7 snapshots. If it's foggy, make it 3. If it's in-between, you decide how many snapshots. Then, describe each in your journal. This will add about a paragraph per snapshot per memory.

4 Take 1 snapshot from each memory and write it from the perspective of a stranger who's looking into the moment. Remember, the stranger doesn't know any of the people or events in the snapshot until the stranger sees this snapshot for the first time. Be descriptive.

  

* Memory Snapshot Journaling: Part 2

OVERVIEW AND PLAN

Our memories have shaped or lives and who we are. Therefore, it is important for us to remember the good memories and the bad ones--not just the good and not just the bad. We even started to list some memories. Today, we are going to list even more memories and then we are going to start to actually doing the Memory Snapshot Journaling. After all, it has just been a list of possible memories so far.

Shall we dive right in and start to explore this?

WEEKLY LISTS

If at all possible, every week, do this exercise in preparation for Memory Snapshot Journaling.

~*~ List three new memories from the past you have not listed before.

~*~ List three memories you have made this week.

That is it. Imagine the goldmine you will have at the end of the year. Then, imagine this after five years, ten years, etc. How incredible would that be?

MEMORY SNAPSHOT JOURNALING

~*~ Pick a memory from the past you want to journal about more fully. Go through your journal at your memory lists if one does not come to mind.

~*~ Picture in your mind the memory. Play it from start to finish.

~*~ What three images jump out to you about the memory? List them.

~*~ With each of those snapshots, write what happened before, during, and after.

~*~ What did you see?

~*~ What did you hear?

~*~ What did you think?

~*~ How did you feel?

~*~ What did you smell?

~*~ What did you do?

~*~ Who was there?

~*~ What strikes you most about the memory?

~*~ How has this memory shaped who you are?

Then, do the same, but with a memory from the last week.

Ideally, you will do this exercise once a week.

Mining Your Memories with Lists: A Journaling Exercise or Prompt 

LIST TO DETAILS

The best journaling helps you to put your life on the page and leave your legacy. It also helps you to dig deeper and live a fuller, deeper, and more intentional life. This is where you start to live on purpose.

However, how do you do that? What does that look like and why would you want to do that?

It's important to mine your memories. That way, you learn what is really important to you and what is less important. Every memory you have is important, it's a matter of what you find most important today and how it has shaped you to be who you are and what you have done. Get them all down on the page in lists.

Then, you take items of each list and write more about each. You get to what is most important and what stands out most in your life--today. And you focus on that. You try to get every memory and every detail out of that (Whatever "that" is.)

For instance, take a simple coffee mug in my cabinet. It's one of two favorites. This seems simple enough and not very important. It's just a mug, after all. However, if I look further into it, the mugs are important to me.

There is a reason why they are my favorites. So, I need to explore this. How do I do that? 

First, I do a SOC.

Both read, HISTORIC JAMESTOWN.

MINING YOUR MEMORIES JOURNALING EXERCISE

Start with writing lists of your memories. Do all sorts of journaling prompts to make as many lists as possible (List suggestions: people, places, things/objects, memories, favorites, least favorites, 10 objects of each room of your house, songs, books, TV shows, games, specific years in your life, decades of your life, etc.).

Get it all down in the list--your memories and anything else that comes to mind. Do a SOC (Stream of Consciousness) writing to get them all down. Write down everything that comes to mind in a list.

Then, take three of those items and write more details about each. Do a SOC on each of the three items.

Do a word association, mind map, SOC, or anything else that comes to mind about each of the three items.

Take those three items and write a longer journal entry on each.

Write about the six senses of: smell, sight, smell, touch, taste, and perception/intuition on each of the three items.

Ask who, what, where, when, why, and how questions about each of the three items.

Then, a week from the time you finish this, do it again for this list. Choose three items to write more about.

Then, take two weeks off and do it again.

Then, take a month off and do it again.

Then, do it in three months.

Then, do it in 6 months.

Then, do it in one year.

Then, do it in 1.5 years.

Then, do it in two years.

Then, do it in 5 years.

Then, do it in 10 years.

Then do it in 20 years.

Then, do it in 25 years.

Memory Mining List 2: A journaling Exercise or Prompt

Take inventory of your stories. All of them. Make lists of each memory that comes to mind. Do this every day--including new memories and observations you made that day.

As memories come to you, make sure to get them down on the page.

Then, in time, write a paragraph of each and every memory you have.

As you find the time, journal 2 paragraphs of each memory, and then 3 paragraphs of each memory. Finally, of the most important memories, write 1-page or more of each memory.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com/2012/12/future-journaling-list-journaling.html

2013 and January Journaling and Memoir Writing Classes Notes

As you might have guessed, the homework for last week and this week have their purposes. Last week's homework was meant to get you to write the top 125 memories from your life  that came to your mind. This week, you are fleshing out 5-7 memories and writing as much as you can about each.

Are these classes nothing but busy work and homework? You might wonder. 

But, I bet you see at this point that there might be a method to my madness. There is one. Trust me. Today, I wills tart to explain a little of what that is,

Journaling is very personal--and so are your memories. My whole goal is to help give yourself the permission to experiment and get these things down on the page, so you can leave your legacy and start to write your memoir. I have provided some guidance with the homework, but I've left a lot of it up to you. Why? It's because you need to experiment and figure out what works for you. You need to feel free when you journal--and not have so much instruction that it stifles your creativity or your flow. 

That being said, if you were too lost or stifled, I was sure you would contact me and request help--or search my blog for more tools to help you--of which there are plenty. 

HABIT GROWING

I have not wanted to ask you to set a daily word count goal. That can put undue pressure on you and can stifle your muse. Therefore  I have not done so. However, can you see, this week in particular, that you are starting to write a certain number of words per day? 

You are developing the journaling habit without even realizing it. And, as to how many words per day... It you are new to journaling, I recommend 500 words or so. If you are a regular journalkeeper, I recommend 1,000. But, again  the choice is up to you. Do what works. That's the bottom line. And, make it your goal to journal a little more every week. 

If you are writing your memoir, this is really important. Make a decision as to how many words you want to write a day--and get after it. The average word count for a memoir is 80,000 to 100,000 or so words. Some are a lot more and some are less. 

PATTERNS

What comes to mind, when it comes to mind, is important. There are patterns there and reasons there you will need to explore. Are you starting to see this?

MEMOIR WRITERS

Your journal is your first draft of your memoir. 

We need to mine through our memories and then figure out the patterns  so we know how to write our memoir. We will start to see the patterns next week. Hang in there. But, your journaling is the first step that's needed. 

YOUR MEMORIES

Your memories are a key as to what has happened to you, who you were, who you are, who you will become, and where you go next in your life's journey. So, mien them deeply. Get all of them on the page, and keep writing as much as you can about each of your original 125 memories. Keep an ongoing FUTURE MEMORY JOURNALING LIST so that you can also mine those later. 

HOMEWORK

* What patterns are you starting to see?

* How has mining your memories impacted you? 

* What new memories have you uncovered as you think about other memories?

* Do you see how you became who you are today and why?

~ Stacy Duplease

Journalkeeper

2013 and January Class Notes and Homework

2013 Journaling and Memoir Homework Week 2:
Complete the homework of the January class, but with one exception. Rather than write about 5 memories, write about 7 this week. So, that is write about one memory per day.

January Class Homework:
This week, write about 5 memories. Use all seven days to write as much as possible for each.

Both Classes Notes:
This week, we are going to start to expand our memories and get the whole picture of the memory on the page. So, how will we go about it? Do the following with each memory:
1 Act like a reporter on the scene and write what you see and hear.
2 Switch to your perspective and ask who, what, where, when, why, and how questions of the memory.
3 Add all five senses: taste, smell, touch, sight, and hearing/sound.
4 What did you think, feel, sense, and pray?
5 Do you have any photos of the memory? Pick three and describe each photo, if you do.
6 If you don't have any photos, and could take three to fix, what would you take? Describe each photo. This is called Missing Photo Journaling Exercise or Prompt.

~Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Writer

2013 and January 30-Day Journaling Classes Homework

Day 7

The homework for today is two-parts:

1 Add more memories until you have at least 125 memories listed.

2 Pick one of the 125 memories and start to write a long journaling entry on it. Write at least one-page. Make sure to ask who, what, why, when, where, and how questions and answer when. Make sure to include all of the five senses.

-- Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Author

2013 and 30-Days Journaling and Memoir Class Notes & Homework

DAYS 4 AND 5

HOMEWORK

Day 4: Write out 25 more memories.

Day 5: Write out 25 more memories. 

The good news is that after Day 5, we will not be making these silly lists any longer. So, hang in there. This too shall pass. Again, there is a reason for all of this listing. Everything we do in the next 25 days after that will encompass these lists (or the 1 overall list of all 125 memories. 

I hope it has been, and will be, a rather insightful adventure as you remember the most memorable times of your life. After all, these are the times that have shaped who you are today and help explain why you do the things you do. 

May we never take a single moment of our lives for granted  Sure, we may go through tough times and may do some foolish things, but it's what we learn from them and how we apply these lessons that make our lives so much sweeter in the future. Every experience is not for naught. There is a reason. Searching our minds for these precious insights in a privilege we have  No other animal on earth has the rich storehouse of memory like we do. 

Our memories are sacred. Let's look at each of the 125 gems and explore their brilliancy and see how these precious jewels make us treasure our lives today. 

~ Stacy Duplease

2013 and 30-Days Journaling and Memoir Class Notes & Homework

DAY 3

2013 CLASS NOTE

Don't forget 2013 Storykeeper Odyssey Class to do this 30-Day class as part of your homework and 2013 class. There will also be 11 other month-long classes to help you journal your story and then write your memoir. 

RECAP OF PREVIOUS DAYS HOMEWORK AND NOTES FOR 2013 AND 30-DAY CLASS

Day 1 Homework and notes can be found here:

http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com/2012/12/30-days-of-memory-launch-pad-class_31.html

and here:

http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com/2013/01/2013-and-january-journaling-and-memoir.html

Day 2 Homework and notes can be found here:

http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com/2013/01/30-days-of-memory-launch-pade.html

2013 Storykeeper Odyssey Week 1 homework and notes can be found here:

http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com/2012/12/2013-storykeeper-odyssey-class-notes.html

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Memories are the building blocks of your life. They made you who you are today and brought you down the path you've traveled. 

HOMEWORK FOR TODAY FOR BOTH CLASSES

You guessed right. It's this:

~ List 25 memories.

~ Then, re-read your previous lists and make sure you haven't repeated anything. If you have  write another memory. Also, as you go through all 3 lists do any other memories come to mind? If so, write them down. After all, that will get you ahead for tomorrow (hee-hee). 

JOURNALING PROMPTS

~ List 5 memories of a person in your life.

~ List 5 memories of a pet (or pets) you've had.

~ List 5 memories of movies you've seen.

~ List 5 memories of TV shows you've watched.

~ List memories of each house you've lived in.

~ List memories of each job you've had. 

Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Author

My Storykeeper Odyssey in 2013: Journaling & Memoir

Email: storykeeper2121@gmail.com

Bookstore: http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/hisfiction

dba Remembering Your Present, LLC & Storykeeper 2121

Journal to Memoir (2 classes): A thought and clarification

Your journaling entry of a memory is the rough draft of your memoir.

You memoir is your second draft of your journaling.

-- Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Author

2013 and January Journaling and Memoir Class Notes

GREETINGS
A couple of times per week to once a day, I will do a blog post of notes, journaling exercises or prompts, thoughts,encouragement, teaching, etc. I will combine both classes into these notes--for the most part and there will be some separate blog posts for both classes.

Why am I combining class notes? The 30-Day class is actually part of the 2013 class and so the next eleven classes.

WELCOME TO DAY 1 OF CLASSES
I published both classes homework already, but wanted to touch base with you. So, how are your memories coming?

Is getting to 25 going to be easy or difficult for you today?

Remember this: Just write. Don't think. Just write whatever memories that pop into your mind. There is a reason why they pop into your mind when they do. Do not fight it. Do not second-guess it. Just write. Get them on the page. Analyze things later.

Make sure to write the good, the bad and ugly, and the indifferent memories. Write them all. Each memory is important. Remember, you can write more memories than suggested. Also, you can start to write a longer journal entry for each memory.

Walk down memory lane. Enjoy the journey. Each memory has shaped who you are today.

-- Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Author