It's a new day!

Good Morning Journal Writers and participants in our Balancing Stones Sculpture Writing Project.  It is time for our next important step heading to our Stone 9...

Please take your Journals out, and your Balancing Stones Sculpture print-out with your words placed on your Stones as instructed.

You should have had plenty of time to answer the questions about the full Journal page that you wrote using all of the words that you chose for your Stones.  We have completed eight (8) Stones so far, and some of our participants may have less Stones.  The following questions apply regardless of how many Stones you have completed.  Every participant should have written a full Journal page using every word chosen for their Stones.

Here are the questions again for Review...

1)  What did you write about?

2)  Did you use any of your words more than once?

3)  Did your writing take a particular direction?

4)  Were you inspired to write further after completing

       your full Journal Page?

5)  Did you find this Writing Project to be helpful in

       terms of getting you focused on writing in a 

       Journal?

6)  Can you find something in your writing that points

       you in the direction of your writing genre or the

       Writing career that you seek?

If you did not write down the answers to the six questions above, please take a little time to write your answers down at this time.

Also, be sure to have your Balancing Stones Sculpture diagram printed out and at hand with all of your words placed on your Stones.

Here is my example for viewing of our Balancing Stones Sculpture print-out with my eight Stones inserted as instructed . . .

What we all want to do now is consider question 1:  What did you write about?  Your answer will tell you a lot about your writing direction.  I ended up writing about (for the most part) how to write Novels as a Novelist.  There was also information about using your mind to pull out the details of your Novel, and the various ways to get your writing in order, such as Journals, research, and recording the behaviorism of the people you come in contact with.  Think about what it was that you wrote about and your style of writing.

Now let us go to question 2:  Did you use any of your words more than once?  If so, which words were those words?  And, which word did you use the most?  The words that I used more than once were:  Stone 2 (1728) - four times; Stone 3 (Opera) - five times; Stone 4 (Novels) - three times; and Stone 5 (Journal) - three times.  The remainder of my words were used only once.  The word that I used the most was "Opera".  There is something about the internal process of writing that leads you to gravitate to certain words.  That is why the Journaling process is very helpful -- Journaling helps you to take a good look at how you write and what you write about.  Editors are used for a very good reason.  Most Editors have a passion for reading and correcting errors.  As a Writer it is much better to let your writing flow -- hence the use of Journals.

Now for question 3:  Did your writing take a particular direction?  My writing seemed to be directed towards "Inspiration for Writers".

As for question 4:  Were you inspired to write further after completing your full Journal Page?  If you were inspired to write further, what were you inspired to write about?  I was inspired to write further about the Psychology of Journaling.

Now on to question 5:  Did you find this Writing Project to be helpful in terms of getting you focused on writing in a Journal?  Hopefully you answered "yes" to this question.  If you did not, may I suggest that you take a notepad around with you and start using it to jot down ideas that come to you during your day.  The process of actively using a Journal daily will lead you to getting a bigger Notepad, or a Journal, so that you may expand your daily thoughts and ideas into something very beneficial for you in the area of Writing.

And finally, the last question...

Question 6)  Can you find something in your writing that points you in the direction of your writing genre or the Writing career that you seek?  This is a very important question, and if you remember, it was the question that was asked when we first started our Balancing Stones Sculpture Writing Project.  If you seek to be a Novelist what genre would you choose?

The definition of Genre in Writing is as follows...

Genre (noun)

1:  a kind of literary or artistic work

2:  a style of expressing yourself in writing

      [syn:  writing style, literary genre]

3:  a class of artistic endeavor having a characteristic

      form or technique.

Writing genres (commonly known, more narrowly, as literary genres) are determined by narrative technique, tone, content, and by critics' definitions of the genres.  Writing genres may be fictional or non-fictional.

The classic major genres of literature are:

• Fiction.
• Comedy.
• Drama.
• Horror.
• Non-fiction.
• Realistic fiction.
• Romance novel.
• Satire.
• Tragedy
• Tragicomedy
• African American
• Fantasy
• Mythology
• Historical Fiction
• Sci-Fi
• Crime
• Fable
• Fairy Tale
• Fan Fiction
• Folklore
• Legend
• Magical Realism
• Mystery
• Mythology
• Suspense/Thriller
• Tall Tale
• Western
• Chic Flick (Chick Lit)

There are also other areas to consider as a Writer, such as:

Common Genres: nonfiction

• Biography/Autobiography – narrative of a person's life; a true story about a real person.
• Essay – a short literary composition that reflects the author's outlook or point.
• Owner's manual - (also Instruction manual, User's guide) – an instructional book or booklet that is supplied with consumer products such as vehicles, home appliances, firearms, toys and computer peripherals.
• Journalism – reporting on news and current events.
• Lab Report – a report of an experiment.
• Memoir – factual story that focuses on a significant relationship between the writer and a person, place, or object; reads like a short novel.
• Narrative nonfiction/personal narrative – factual information about a significant event presented in a format which tells a story.
• Reference book – such as a dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, almanac, or atlas.
• Self-help book – information with the intention of instructing readers on solving personal problems.
• Speech – public address or discourse.
• Textbook – authoritative and detailed factual description of a topic.

The list of Genres given is not all there is, but the list should help you in terms of pinning down which genre(s) fit you personally.

Think about all of the above for a bit, and we will take a short break and we will be back here later on this evening to continue...

Short Break from our Balancing Stones Sculpture

Writing Project ~ See you this evening!

Peace, Love & Light,

  René

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