How to Journal - Where to Begin

The retention of a personal journal has been a pursuit of human society for many hundreds of years. In times past men and women of learning, studiously kept a article of their days, their achievements and their dreams. We owe a great debt of gratitude to each one of them as we have gleaned much insight into the lives of those in times past from many of those journal entries.

For some people, the retention of a journal is a natural prolongation of their everyday lives. How many of us have lifted the house Bible to search for small snippets cut from the newspaper, flowers pressed between the pages, envelopes with letters or pictures tucked away safely for hereafter generations to discover? I de facto have found such treasures in the most 'ordinary' of books on the shelves of secondhand book shops and at carport sales. It all the time comes as a surprise and satisfaction to search for them and then I feel a inescapable sadness that somehow these treasures have ended up in the hands of a stranger.

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The unexpected gift of these objects has been a richer insight of our desire to article and keep important memories and items and while tucking these treasures into the pages of a book isn't exactly journaling, it is a component of this amazingly creative and satisfying pass-time.

How to Journal - Where to Begin

`A Nation is governed by all that has tongue in the nation': Newspapers and Political Expression in Colonial Sydney, 1825-1850.: An article from: Journal of Australian Studies Best

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`A Nation is governed by all that has tongue in the nation': Newspapers and Political Expression in Colonial Sydney, 1825-1850.: An article from: Journal of Australian Studies Overview

This digital document is an article from Journal of Australian Studies, published by University of Queensland Press on September 1, 1999. The length of the article is 3645 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: `A Nation is governed by all that has tongue in the nation': Newspapers and Political Expression in Colonial Sydney, 1825-1850.
Author: Greg Picker
Publication:Journal of Australian Studies (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1999
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Page: 184

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There are a few basic skills when studying how to journal, some of them are:

• Make the time and space to do it on a quarterly basis. Either you are retention a dream journal, a orchad journal, a baby journal, voyage journal or a personal journal of any kind, this one step will make or break your experience. If you have to go so far as to make a 'date' with yourself - do it. At the very least, spend some time once a week to look through your calendar or diary and article the highlights or low lights of your week. Even after many years, I'm an irregular writer in my journal, but when I do write and commune with my astonishing companion, the value I receive from this is immense. It is all the time well worth the effort.
• Begin with something you are passionate about. This makes it so much easier to write regularly, the words and ideas can seem to flow without effort and you will enjoy reading back through the pages of you journal entries. I have more than one journal because I like to keep my gardening knowledge (successes and failures) detach from my personal and spiritual increase conversations. I'm sure you will develop a process and style that works for you.
• Use materials that Inspire and Motivate you: My journals are all the time beautiful to look at and to use. Likewise my writing implement. I have a preference for a inescapable type of pen, a inescapable colour and a inescapable texture to the paper, This adds greatly to my enjoyment of the writing process and when seeing back I can remember what it was about that single book or pen that attracted me. Layers of enjoyment will build a strong relationship to your journaling process. Find out what you like, experiment with different things until you find the right compound of elements for you.
• Learn from others: So many times at the starting of my journaling adventure I longed to peek inside the pages of other peoples journals. What did they do? How did they do it? I was fortunate that some of my friends were willing to share some of their pages with me and I was introduced to the idea of drawing and painting and collage and colour and doodles in addition to the words which I was writing. This immediately reminded me of the newspaper cuttings, pressed flowers and pictures I have all the time found inside the pages of old books and this idea of adding such optic texture to my journal was so enticing I began right away. I am so grateful to my dear friends for opportunity my eyes to these new possibilities.

There are many reasons to keep a journal. There are many ways to keep a journal. If you de facto are concerned that you don't know how to journal, there are many sources of inspiration and motivation is only you will open your eyes and your heart to them. I have recently discovered many books on the subject as well as a number of keen examples that have been posted in the Internet. Use these resources if you feel stuck or lacking inspiration and I'm sure it won't be very long before you are enjoying retention a journal of your days, your dreams, successes and triumphs.

How to Journal - Where to BeginThe Making of Our Digital Nation: Rose Holley at Mosman Library Video Clips. Duration : 78.02 Mins.

Ordinary Australians have helped correct millions of lines of text in the National Library of Australia's Newspaper Digitisation Program. They have contributed thousands of photographs to our national digital picture collection and helped museums like the Powerhouse identify and locate the subjects of their historical images. They have transcribed birth, death and marriage records so that they are searchable on sites like the Ryerson Index and Family Search Index. They have made thousands of out of copyright books electronically available. Rose Holley talks about digital volunteers and the amazing things they are achieving. She also speaks about the innovative crowdsourcing projects at the National Library of Australia. Rose was manager of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program. She now manages the new Trove discovery service from the National Library. She recently published 'Crowdsourcing: How and Why Should Libraries Do It?', a paper that analyses successful projects and issues a challenge to libraries: Do we have the courage, and dare we give users something greater than power — freedom?

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