Hold on Short Story Writers

We're taking a turn here to take a look at the benefits of writing in a Diary!

You are about to be introduced to the pleasant and less talked about phenomenon of Diary Dreams come true.  We will discuss this hidden topic because both aspiring and inquiring Writers need to know.

Keep this thought in the back of your head ~ keeping a Diary may just hold the precious key to achieving a meaningful Writer's life.

A Diary serves as a journey into your life story.  Whenever we take the time to write in our Diary, it points to our ability to be focused, faithful, and true to the "gift" of Writing which we all possess but find excuses not to use to the best of our ability.

If we dare to take the challenge to diary our thoughts, hopes, wishes, and dreams, we will have a very pleasant and revelatory surprise which will be sure to await us whenever we revisit our Diary.  Be it a day later, a week later, a month later, a year later, or decades later ~ our Diary is the record of what is going on with us on several levels.

The questions that will arise when returning to our Diary help us to understand our thoughts, feelings, emotions, and in most cases, our hopes and dreams.

When we first write in our Diary, we have no outlines to follow or rules we must adhere to.  All we have to do is sit down and write.

Whether you think your life is humdrum or not is of no importance.  What is important is that you care enough about yourself and your writing "gift" to do something that will lead you to a new life that is just a Diary and an ink pen away.

Buy several Diaries for the years ahead with the expectation that you will use them, and probably run out to buy more of them sooner than you think when you discover the great benefits keeping a Diary offers to you.

The one thing that needs to be mentioned, because you will probably never say this aloud nor whisper it to yourself . . .

"A Diary is personal ~ very."

I say that to say this, we rarely like to say to anyone that anything is "All about ME."

For some reason, many of us are held prisoner by our own negative thoughts, then we try to blame it on everybody else.  When the truth of the matter is, everyone in our life just so happens to be an aspect of who we are.  The person before our face at any given time is a mirror of our "self".  It could be the rude or loud customer, or  the silent person who refuses to speak when you say, "Hello".  Quickly we forget that there have been times when we have done the same thing.

But ~ aHA!  Could the very people that annoy us be the characters that should be in the pages of our Short Story?  Could the thoughts, places and people that are in the pages of our Diary be our Novel writing material?

No one is going to write in your Diary but you. No one will criticize you for what you have to say in your precious lock & key Diary.  No need to worry that anyone will be rushing you to finish.  Being the procrastinator that you probably are, that should make you feel at ease.

Our story in our Diary is meaningful, because we are each meaningful.  There is plenty to say in our Diary that we'd rather just share within the pages of a well kept secret.

What is most important about our Diary journey is that much of what we will share within its precious pages will not instantly be fully understood by our mind.  For it is the heart that writes within the pages of a Diary.  And our heart has the propensity to be rather prophetic.

There is veiled meaning in heart-felt self talk.  You write within the pages of your Diary, then you walk away from it.  When you return to read what you wrote later, the words will unfold because you will be in a different frame of mind when you return to read.

The definition of "prophetic" is this:  accurately describing or predicting what will happen in the future.

A diary is a record (originally in handwritten format) with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. A personal diary may include a person's experiences, and/or thoughts or feelings, including comments on current events outside the writer's direct experience.

Sleep well, and stop in tomorrow for more of Short Story Tip Time

(9th Installment coming right up!)

Peace, Love & Light,

      René      

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