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Update on My Visual Journaling and Diary

April 13, 2025April 26, 2025 Allen

Backstory: In late 2024 I made a list of topics that I wanted to pursue: Incorporating more visual elements and color into my work made

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Journaling Learning Thinking Writings

Should You Be Writing Morning Pages?

November 25, 2024November 26, 2024 Allen

What They Are (excerpts from The Artist’s Way) What’s The Point? To me, what we are trying to do is to practice writing and thinking

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Journaling Learning Thinking Writings

Yes, You Should Be Keeping A Common Place Book

November 8, 2024May 12, 2025 Allen

What It Is What It Is Not A place to write down quotes, ideas, information for further reading or research A collection of to do

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Writings

 I’m a Watermelon

July 6, 2024July 6, 2024 Allen

“I’m getting fat”, I thought.  I can feel my skin tightening around my belly, chest, and lower body.  But I can’t pinch an inch because

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Books Writings

Book Notes: Ex Libris, by Anne Fadiman

June 16, 2024June 17, 2024 Allen

This little book is another in the series I’ll call “Stolen Moments”–in this case reading the short chapters while reading the streetcar to my local

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Books Learning Writings

Learning to Write Betterer, or Gooder

June 15, 2024June 16, 2024 Allen

Who is this post for? I’ve been studying the following over the past couple of months to help improve my writing. The books aren’t in

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Learning Writings

Puttin’ In The Reps: Be More Creative and Achieve Mastery

June 15, 2024June 16, 2024 Allen

We all know about the importance of repetition in achieving fitness gains, like this person here. But these same principles apply to creative work and

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Writings

TILT! (An original poem)

May 4, 2024May 4, 2024 Allen

What if our LifeWas like a pinball machine?Would we bouncefrom bumper to bumper?Would we score pointshere and there?Would we use our flippersTo return the ball

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Books Writings

Book Notes: Several Short Sentences About Writing

April 26, 2024April 26, 2024 Allen

There is lots of wisdom in this book about improving our writing (and thinking). But for me, the free verse or sing-song style made it

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Books Journaling Writings

Putting Pen to Paper, but Not Just Any Pen to Any Paper

April 24, 2024April 24, 2024 Allen

In my post about the book Writers on Writing, I didn’t mention my favorite essay in the book because I thought it deserved it’s own

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