LINKS
Being a creature of habit I tend to return to the same journals/writings each day. It is a comfort. It allows me to visit other writer's lives. It allows me access to good writing and warm hearts on a daily basis. The sites I list here are those where I feel at home, where I feel that if I were in need of smile and a cup of tea the door would be open. Here is a partial list of the sites I haunt.
Not all the places I visit are updated on a daily or even regualr basis. These sites offer content that is well worth the visit.
Journals and Journalers now gone but not forgotten:
Page by Page: A Woman's Journal
Photography
Poetry
by Maggie Turner
Canadian Maggie Turner writes and publishes
poetry, photography, and a personal journal online. Her
work reflects the current way of life in Canada, embracing
Canada's past, present, and future in a unique portrayal
of everyday life. Maggie's voice is one of the many that
actively depict the rich diversity of Canadian culture.Photography: "a term which comes from the Greek words photos (light) and graphos (drawing). A photograph is made with a camera by exposing film to light in order to create a negative. The negative is then used in the darkroom to print a photograph (positive) onto light-sensitive paper.
Source: University of Arizona Glossary
Poetry: "a form of speech or writing that harmonizes the music of its language with its subject. To read a great poem is to bring out the perfect marriage of its sound and thought in a silent or voiced performance. At least from the time of Aristotle's Poetics, drama was conceived of as a species of poetry."
Source: Creative Studios
Journal: " "Though a journal may be many things - a treasury, a storehouse, a jewelry box, a laboratory, a drafting board, a collector's cabinet, a snapshot album, a history, a travelogue..., a letter to oneself - it has some definable characteristics. It is a record, an entry-book, kept regularly, though not necessarily daily.... Some (entries) will be nearly illegible, written in the dark in the middle of the night.... Not only is it a record for oneself, but of oneself. Every memorable journal, any successful journal, is honest. Nothing sham, phony, false...." (Dorothy Lambert from Ken Macrorie's book, Writing to be Read )
A journal is a way to keep track of your thoughts about what you read... as well as what you did on any given day."
Source: Journal Writing
