Journalling

This week I’ve been mainly working on my journal, especially today and yesterday, because I’ve just finished a book on journalling. It’s got some good tips and prompts and it really suited me well. Interesting reading at any rate. It’s quite amazing what you discover when you write down your thoughts. I found things I hadn’t expected– things dragged up from the murky pool of my subconscious mind. It was refreshing to see what and who I really am. I think I might even have gotten some ideas for short stories which are totally out of my genre (as in raw humanity and real life stuff). I also worked on A Game of Chess and I think I’ve reached the word quota. I’m not sure though, until I type it out. I finally don’t need to write in calligraphy to put words onto the page. White paper is no longer daunting. Does that mean my writer’s block is over for the time being? Well, I wouldn’t know really until I try and do some more of my novel, but I think that journal writing stint really helped because it got the words flowing. I wasn’t even thinking much and my hand moved non-stop. It’s interesting when that happens.