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The musicians’ bodies sync with the music and each other physically, mentally, and physiologically. And I use content to fill in design or customer journey gaps.ĭuring a concert, the audience’s breathing and physiological responses sync to the music. I deliberately arrange lists using processes beyond the standard formulas. I pay close attention to how the words appear on the page. But they taught me to think closely about the functionality of the content. The writers also designed the sixth joke to elicit a more prolonged laugh to give the team a chance to change graphics on the screens.Īre these tips going to result in effective business content? Not exactly. Several years ago, a popular comedy writer shared some insights into what made Letterman’s top ten lists so successful.įirst, he said, was to write each item as a separate joke with a punchline, so it stands on its own.

Decision-making order: Use the anchoring bias to guide decisions (eg.: Placing the product you want to sell most often in the middle.).

Logical order: Logical or procedural order.

Patterns: Power of 3, the popularity of 7, etc.

Memory-based: Most important listed first.

Visually appealing: From shortest to longest character count.

1 To see how others have approached journaling, see if one of your favorite authors have had any of their journals published-you may discover some new topics to explore in your own personal journal entries. Studies have shown that writing journal entries has myriad benefits beyond deepening your writing practice, including better sleep and boosted self-esteem.

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What would you do if you had all the free time in the world? Where would you go? What hobbies would you take up? Who would you like to have dinner with or what theme park would you like to visit? Your journal is the perfect place to explore and document these wants and dreams. Those memories you find yourself drifting back to often? Put them on the page! Write down as much as you can about those moments-as truthfully or as fictitiously as you’d like. There’s no right or wrong in your personal journal entries, though, so a log can expand into something longer. Some writers enjoy using a journal to keep a daily log of what they did, who they saw, where they went-but in short, brief entries. You can make a note of story ideas and return for fleshing it out in a first draft later on or use your personal journal as a place to brainstorm ideas and experiment with new voices, styles, and genres. Your entry may be the list or lists themselves or spark a memory or story idea you’d like to explore in a new entry. You can make lists of anything: favorites, likes, dislikes, to-dos, not to-dos-the list, of course, goes on.

Lists are a great way to ease into a journal writing session. Here are a few examples of personal journal entries to get your pen (or typing fingers) moving: Sometimes all you need to jumpstart your personal journal entries is a prompt. Or browse your old entries and see if anything takes your attention and sparks a new idea. If you didn’t approach your journal with inspiration on your side, consider putting down whatever your train of thought is in the moment-it may lead you somewhere interesting and unexpected. A single journaling session may yield one or several entries in your personal journal. When you keep a journal, it’ll be comprised of entries. What is a Journal Entry-and How Do You Start One?

Try a few approaches to journaling until you find the one that feels right for your writing. Both are appropriate approaches to crafting personal journal entries. Some journal writers enjoy selecting fun or fancy pens or pencils and the perfect notebook in which to collect their thoughts others prefer to use a desktop or phone journaling app to jot down notes and lists and story starts. It can be done daily to keep a brief record of what you’ve done and thought, sporadically as ideas and inspiration come, hand-written, typed-journaling can be almost any kind of writing you’re inspired to do however you’re inspired to do it!

Simply put, journaling is the act of documenting information-either for the audience of only yourself, or for other readers (like a blog). Start with this helpful overview of the practice of journal entry writing as it applies to your writing pursuits and some helpful personal journal entry examples, and you’ll find yourself inspired to write in no time.

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