{"id":7721,"date":"2019-05-17T01:05:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T05:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=7721"},"modified":"2019-05-14T20:42:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T00:42:45","slug":"7721","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=7721","title":{"rendered":"Journals Helping Fiction #MFRWAuthor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Except for keeping a diary as a child, writing a joural for a college course, and another during a vacation to a few countries outside the US, I’ve never kept a journal.<\/p>\n

I don’t care much for writing in detail about what’s going on in my life. I prefer to keep “snapshots” of moments by regularly writing haiku and other short poems. I read the poems fairly often to bring back memories, but I rarely look back on the journals. The childhood diaries I have long since thrown away.<\/p>\n

Journal keeping itself hasn’t helped my writing, unless it was in a way I’m not aware of. A lesson I learned in that same college class did help my writing, however. At that time, I had problems writing short stories. I had written mostly novels and developed sort of a short story phobia. The instructor told me that writing a short story was no different than writing a long one. You need a beginning, a middle, and an end. From that, I wrote a short story about a camping trip I had taken with my brother. After that, I no longer feared writing short stories and have spent much of my life since writing novella-length romance fiction.<\/p>\n

It seems that in a roundabout way, journal keeping helped my writing, even though it has been decades since I’ve kept a journal.<\/p>\n

To find out whether journal keeping has helped other writers in the MFRA 52-Week Blog Hop, please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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