Writing a diary is not the same as writing a memoir ... Graham Greene in his novel Our Man of Havana, says to someone who is grieving, “You were interested in a person, not in life, and people ...

In these times, your diary/journal can be that person. They can be your friends with whom you can confide without doubts, lament without hesitations, and express without fear. Writing is ...

Even though sometimes it gets a bad reputation as being something childish or silly, diary-writing is an excellent mental health tool. Speaking as someone who has been keeping a consistent journal ...

Did you write lengthy missives or just a few quick ... organized person and I was no longer an organized person. And so the diary was nowhere near as thorough because I was scrambling to just ...

A diary entry is a type of recount. Here are some key features to remember when writing a recount: Write your recount in the first person because it happened to you! I used the stars to navigate ...

Other writers have embraced the practice of keeping a diary in a second or third language. Jhumpa Lahiri learned Italian as a way to find herself. “I don’t recognize the person who is writing ...

But Bell convincingly attests to the power of novel writing for its own sake: “The person you’ve become ... writing in a love song to the private diary, the handwritten letter.

A diary entry is a type of recount. Here are some key features to remember when writing a recount: Write your recount in the first person because it happened to you! I used the stars to navigate ...