The Top 4 Tips on How to Start Writing a Journal

Top Tips On How to Start Writing a Journal

How to start writing a journal contains top tips on finding the right journal, which pen to write with, advice about routines and using the 5 W’s when you first start journaling.

If you’re a person who enjoys good pens – and really, who doesn’t? – then it’s a shame not to do as much writing as possible. A great way to do that: Start and maintain a journal.

Every day, you’ll get to spend a few minutes savoring the feel of your favorite pen in your hand, laying down fluid, sleek lines of ink on richly textured paper. Those are sensations we get to experience too infrequently these days as it is. Plus, your writing, both the content and appearance, will get better with all that practice, guaranteed.

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Learn A Foreign Language By Journaling

Learn a Foreign Language by Journaling

Planning to learn a foreign language this year? Then break out a new journal. Studies show that writing down foreign words and phrases is one of the best ways to learn a foreign language. When you start writing these down on paper it improves improve your recall and understanding of foreign vocabulary and syntax.

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Recommended: Lifehacker’s Notebook Guide

Field Notes 48 Page Memo Book

Here’s a bit of pen-and-paper reading that deserves special mention.

Trent Hamm has written a piece at Lifehacker on using a pocket notebook to simplify your life and increase your productivity, both personally and professionally.

It’s a couple of months old, but still an excellent guide, very thorough and methodical in its approach to making a notebook part of your everyday carry.

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