I first heard of this type of journaling a few years ago and was intrigued, but not at all tempted to create one. Until I was a few months back, and then I couldn’t wait another day to get started on my own version of a DIY daily journal! So I did, and it was […]
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An ode to the Journals of my life
Would you say you have a relationship with your journal(s)? If you do, you know what I mean when I tell you about my relationship with my diary/journal today. Because, to me, it’s a friend to hold close in the darkness… To have a journal, wether it is a private diary or an art journal […]
Celebrating Nine Years of Blogging
What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while. Gretchen Rubin When a a Blog turns Nine Years Old that is old. Ooooold I tell ya! Reeeally really old in the blogosphere. Especially since it’s on the same domain (ihanna.nu) being written by the same I, Hanna. There has […]
Designing a Perfect Life
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes I guess one of the reasons I usually fall in love with this short time between the new and the old year is because it is full of promise. Now, when the old year is going […]
Daily Poetry Writing
This is the only reality there is. If you can get it down on paper, in words, notes, or color, so much the better. Henry Miller Last year I did a small art piece for every day and called it Daily Art Cards. That was a way to get into the habit of creating art […]
Keeping a diary is one of my good habits
In 2008 I filled three whole journals with my almost daily writing; complaints, thoughts, plans, calendar drawings, questions, doodles and lists. I think I do this because it’s habitual. I started as a kid and I just never stopped. It’s like brushing your teeth or eating breakfast, habits you keep doing even though you’ve forgotten […]
Writing and Being – Embracing Your Life through Cr
Writing and Being: Embracing Your Life Through Creative Journaling – Heal your past, claim your present and transform your future by G. Lynn Nelson. Here comes my book review now! Once I decided I wanted to read more about the craft of keeping a journal I browsed through all (?) of the books on the […]
Speaking of monkeys…
You go really deep and connect really large when you write, no matter what you’re writing about. Natalie Goldberg I wanted to mention to anyone who is writing that there is a podcast for Nano-writing-freaks that you should listen to, it’s called Nano Monkeys! Also got a NanoWriMo desktop background> that show November 2007 calendar, […]
Writing a Novel in one month
NaNoWriMo? Ehh… what you say? Keep on reading and I’ll tell you about it! National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing […]