2d • General discussion
Journaling as you write your book 👀 📝
📓 Have you ever tried keeping a journal while you write your book?
This is something I read about on Reddit, and I'm excited to give it a go😊
✨Keep a separate journal open as you write.✨
❌ Not a polished doc. Not something anyone will ever read. Just a place to dump everything that’s in your head while you're working.
✅ If you're stuck, write about it. If something feels off in the story, try to explain why.
If I don’t know what to do next, I literally write:
“I have no idea what to do here…”
And usually, something starts to come out of that.
It’s also where I keep track of things like:
🔸random ideas that don’t fit yet
🔸scenes I might come back to
🔸little problems I need to solve later
🔸messy to-do lists for the project
🌟 The biggest difference? It takes the pressure off the actual writing.
I don’t feel like every thought has to be “good” or usable. I can just think on the page… without it messing up the draft.
🌟 Since I started doing this, I get stuck way less.
And when I do get stuck, I don’t freeze; I just move to the journal and keep going. 🏃🏾♀️
If you haven’t tried this, I’d really recommend it.
It’s such a simple shift, but it’s made writing feel a lot more fluid for me.😊
🤔 Curious......
Do you have anything like this in your process?
Or do you usually try to work everything out directly in the draft?
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Journaling as you write your book 👀 📝
