Each
post for the A to Z Challenge is the challenge I set for myself.
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| If a small notebook was good enough for Leonardo da Vinci... ;) |
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| J is for JOURNAL |
J Jot it down in a Journal. Life has a terrible way of
being important when you’re hoping to pay the bills but ideas are lost if you
don’t jot them down.
HAL LONGLEAT AND THE TROUBLE WITH TRUTH
Hal lingered by the stable. He wondered
if his stay in the castle was going to end. No one had noticed the day the
Master of the Horse brought him in. It seemed everyone was going to notice him
now, whether he stayed or left.
Could YOU have been gifted with the ability to identify
and eliminate weak and brittle phrases from your work? To the uninitiated,
these interlopers look like quality imagery.
CLICHÉ RAIDERS: REWRITE!
• jack of
all trades (but master of none)
• jaundiced
eye
• jewel in
the crown
• Johnny-come-lately
• jockey
for position
• jump on
the bandwagon
• jump the
gun
• just
deserts
• just for
the record
• just
what the doctor ordered
FOR J, I CHOSE JOTTING and JOURNAL. WHAT IS THE SUBJECT
OF YOUR J POST?
Excellent topic! I keep meaning to get back into journaling. It's such great practice for other types of writing, and it's fun to look over old journals for all the little everyday incidents and details you might have forgotten.
ReplyDeleteI'm posting on Jazz for J day myself.
Hi Connie
DeleteThank you :) I agree, I find jotting ideas down very exciting and informative. Wherever I go, I carry a small and medium sized notebook with me. This might be taking journalling to-the-max ;)
I love journals.
ReplyDeleteThose cliches need to go.
Hi Medeia
Delete*grin
Me too! I don't know where I'd be without mine.
I have to take more time to jot down ideas. I have notebooks, but a toddler can be very distracting! :)
ReplyDeleteHi Christine
DeleteGood luck with your hope to get more ideas written down when the little one is underfoot. However, isn't it the thought that counts? ;)
I came up blank for my J...so I chose Jack. That's right...I aint got Jack! :)
ReplyDelete*hahaha
DeleteReally? That's sooo funny. When I have catch-up time I have to get over to read the sum total of all you couldn't think to write about ;)
I second the need for journals! Could not live without them. They haven't harbored my best ideas, but many of the tweaks that turned my existing best ideas functional. Even as someone whose fingers don't let him handwrite for more than a few minutes, I love it so.
ReplyDeleteMy J-post is actually on a character today, Jangs, a public relations ninja.
Journals rule! :) If you find you have to ratio writing then a journal has to be a great way to spend that time.
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ReplyDeleteClinical journals,medical journals,lifescience journals,pharma journals,chemistry journals,engineering journals,management journals,manuscript submissionA TO Z Journals