For some people writing comes easy. They can pick up a pen and paper or open their electronic notebook or a palm device and start writing beautifully, sentences keep coming to them in a flow and in minutes a beautiful piece of writing is completed. Numerous people cannot actually jot down things as easily as said earlier. They get stuck and keep staring at paper, LCD or their surroundings.
Everyone might not be a writer but everyone get some thoughts that can be produced into a beautiful piece later but they lack the material to note it down, hence, it goes a waste. Many people talk about efficient journals, how an interestingly printed journal can compel you to write or how a palm device is boring. There’s no such thing is a right, wrong, boring or interesting journal. All you need is a dairy, a pink dairy decorated with fairies and hearts which you owned in childhood, may be, or you can find countless different types of notebooks, even a small notepad will work and is easy to carry anywhere.
Reading through a writer’s journal like opening yourself to new ideas, there might be some diamonds lying among a pile of mere stones. If you are reading your journal after some years, it will possibly deliver some memories for you. Even if you are not a writer or don’t even want to be one, there’s still something you can note down in your notepad. Writing in notepad is just like making memories. Our mind may not remember every tiny bit, over the period of time we forget things, they go back in mind can we cannot remember them without a trigger. A notepad note can act as a trigger.
Did you meet someone today whom you have not met before? You can write an account. It might not be a proper one but you can write down some points like, what sort of person were they, how did they react, what were there notable points, their name, if it fits their image. If the meeting was interesting or boring, small notes about interesting things that happened or humour and jokes that happened.
You can write one-liners that you read somewhere on a road, on a pole, in a bus while traveling. You can note down the one you overheard while walking by someone on road or a mall. Something you can relate to your life or something that pushes you to think. Often writer do this practice and these can work as great story starters.
Write about your emotions, what you feel in the moment at hand. You feel happy or are you angry? You are confused about something. Describe your feeling. Pick right adjectives for it, avoid vague words and use vivid ones. You can note down the happenings that touch you, make you feel, and think, like a homeless drug addict or a grandson running to his grandma and hugging her while giggling. Moments like later can make you feel great and noting them down might make them forever. Whenever you go back and read it, same freshness and feelings will surround you.
Years later, you can peek into your notepad and there will be memories here and there. They can inspire you later. A snippet of forgotten events in your life can pretty much make you remember all what you have gone through. It’s like a window to the past and musing. There would be many things that might make you smile when you don’t have a real reason to.
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