You'll get journaling prompts and techniques to help you develop a handwriting style you'll love and words you'll want to write! Then, you'll move onto drawing: you'll learn not only how to train your hand, but also how to appreciate your own unique drawing ability. As you continue through the eight chapters, you will learn additional mixed-media techniques to help you overcome your fears of new materials, using photos of yourself, creating layers, working without a plan and much more.Put your worries aside and create fearlessly!You'll find:- Eight common journaling fears dispelled - Twenty techniques to give you art journal courage - Dozens of colorful art journal pages to inspire your own art

    With over 70 entertaining and thought-provoking list topics ranging from the quintessential (favorite books by genre, authors to explore) to the lovably idiosyncratic (favorite reading spots, books to skip), this illustrated journal will serve as a unique autobiography and reading log for bibliophiles.

    Just flip to a random page and use the prompts to jot down whatever silly thoughts or sweet memories pop into your brain.Write fortune cookies to each other! Decide on your perfect theme song! Brainstorm ideas for your matching tattoos! You can fill out each page with a different friend, or complete the whole book with a special someone.And the best part? Not only will you have fun getting playful together, you’ll also end up with an amazing time capsule to look back on!

    Anti Journaling is a route to creative discovery, a way of seeing things differently - it's journaling outside the box. Doodle, create, cut, mess up and even throw tea bags at the pages. In this journal there are no rules! Let your imagination roam free. Paint using a hammer, write with the wrong hand, throw things at the page, fill the journal with illegible writing, draw with a twig, create a still life from fruit peel - put your own stamp on it!

    Who are you now? How did you get here? Where are you going? Some questions are fun, some are deep and some are just plain random. Approach them with courage and creativity. There are no wrong answers. You can take it deadly seriously, or just have fun with it, or both. It's up to you. This is the practice session for the big interview exclusive you will doubtless face when the world finally discovers how amazing you actually are.

    It is the key to great fiction. How do you capture that spark of life that lifts your story off the page and resonates with readers in their very soul? You delve into your own soul and learn how to wrap words around your unique human experience, that’s how. And the best way to do that is to keep a journal. These seven techniques to apply to your journal will help you marry the authenticity of the real world to the imaginations of your story worlds: • How do you recognize a story worth telling? • How do you bring structure and power to a story? • How do you tap into your own emotions to fill your novel with heart?• How do you hone your observation skills? • How do you engagingly describe your world? • How do you make your characters real? • How do you find your unique purpose as a writer? Not your average book on the craft of writing, the author bares pages from her own journal to illustrate her techniques and the level of storytelling skill that can be achieved in your journal. These same excerpts unfold, in real time, the story of the most traumatic plot twist of her life: the stripping away of her family and her search for someone to finally call “Daddy”—a quest which almost claimed her life.Part writing how-to book, part memoir, part self-discovery guide, this volume will show you what the everyday events of your life have to do with great fiction. Your life, after all, is a story.