28 Creative Ways to Journal

Journaling can be a great way to improve self-awareness, manage emotions, and track progress toward personal goals. It’s also a meaningful way to record and preserve important information that could be forgotten.

If you have wanted to start writing in a journal or diary but have never done it before, you may be facing “analysis paralysis”. That’s when you analyze the problem or find additional problems to the original problems until you are unable to make a decision because you feel overwhelmed.

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Should You Journal with Printed Letters or Cursive?

open journal resting on a wooden bench

In school, you first learn to write in printed letters, and eventually in cursive. We all started off with giant pencils and over the course of a few years we graduated to pens. I suppose these days the focus is more on typing skills than writing, but let’s not stumble into deep depression over the lost art of handwriting just yet.

As we each reach the age of journal writing accountability (for me it was 17 and was jumpstarted by heartache), we choose a method to write with even if the decision is subconscious.

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Nine Popular Writing Journal Companies That Pre-Date Moleskine

leather bound handmade journal with jagged page edges resting on a blue dresser

Last time we talked about popular pens for journal writing. Today we’re going to take a look back in history at the companies who made journal writing possible before the ever popular Moleskine. Sure, you could run to your nearest Barnes & Noble, Target, or Walmart and snag a new Moleskine off the shelf, and there’s certainly nothing wrong with that. But before you do, let’s take a walk down history lane and visit nine writing journal producers that existed before Moleskine became the defacto journal company.

Do journals make you happy? I hope you find this as interesting as I did. Let’s dive in!

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Top 17 Pens For Writing in Journals

If you’re going to journal enough to develop a love of journaling, you’ll inevitably try a few pens along the way. Each writer will develop individualized preferences based on type of writing, appearance of ink, ease of use, desired thickness, smearability, and more.

Here are some of the most popular writing pens for journal writing, in no particular order:

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Hello Journal Lovers!

After 28 years of loving journals, writing, and processing through thoughts, it’s time to pay it forward and share this love with you. to Journling.com. Who is JOURNLING for? It’s not for everyone. So don’t feel bad if the content doesn’t resonate. I look at it one of two ways: either it will really hit …

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