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    LEVEL UP YOUR WRITING (LIFE)

    Oct 10, 2022 5 minutes

    Journaling as Your Superpower

    Truth be told, on the one hand, I’m terrible at journaling.

    Yet, on the other hand, if pressed to name my creative writing superpower … I’d answer “journaling.”

    There are all kinds of ways to journal—and one might just become your superpower.

    Traditionally, “journaling” means writing semi-regularly in a diary or journal about our lives, events, thoughts, feelings. As a teen, I was great at keeping a diary.

    But I stopped keeping a personal journal in my early 20s, and I’ve felt a bit guilty ever since. After all, I’m a writer. Shouldn’t writers journal? I’ve been inspired by big life events and vacations to attempt personal journaling anew, but I never get more than a few days in before I abandon the effort.

    Now, if personal

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