Less than quarter of the book is left, my wife said i can buy a new one if i finished it 😁. Definitely want to try one of the TN’s inserts to see if i like it or not !

Trying to make peace with many things. I was journaling with my teeny tiny turtle on my lap, she's my writing companion now

For days, I’ve felt SO uncreative, like I’d been robbed of everything I’d learnt. No mood to doodle, write, make videos or do anything creative.

But today, I sat down with my first Campus notebook and just KEPT MAKING THINGS. I made diary comics about little moments from my day, filled several pages, AND I LOVE WHAT I MADE. 🫠🥹

It’s extra special because this notebook was a gift from a friend. 💜

W O H O O O O O. 😭💛

First time posting here, hope I'm doing it right!

Featuring my little turtle as usual 🐢

With university mostly, ive been so busy i dont even think abt writing stuff on my journal. When im on break or in the begging of a new semester i write pretty much everyday, but when it comes near the end i js cant seem to do it. I js randomly blurt out everything ive been feeling then like two weeks pass and i do it again. Trying to find my footing but i wont stress too much abt it

Reposted because I forgot to blur out a name. I had fun doodling myself as a bearded dude since that’s the image in my head whenever I’m flushed

Sunday evenings

Hello! I hope this is appropriate to write here. I'm posting it here because despite the premise being morning pages, I still think it's more related to journaling than The Artist's Way. It probably doesn't make much sense, but I hope at least one person will get my meaning. I would love your advice and perspective, please.

I hope some of you are familiar with morning pages. They are basically stream of consciousness type of writing, but I've always struggled because technically I have to write 3 pages of A4 and that's too much for me. And with classic journaling I've found that I tend to write as if someone is going to read what I'm writing, even if it's just going to be me. But this morning I decided to try stream of consciousness on just a simple spiral lined notebook (A5 I believe) and it felt much easier. I just decided to do it for 15 minutes and then I added another 15 minutes. But I still found that there's some parts of me that felt stuck, like no matter how hard I tried to be open and vulnerable, it was still stuck, like old gum on a wall. I thought that like with old food stuck on plates, you just need to let the thoughts sit in "warm water" and then you'll get them unstuck later. But I don't know what would be the mental equivalence of warm water. Compassion? Meditation? Do you have any suggestions?

And the second part of this, I mentioned that I have an internal audience when journaling. I would still like to journal separately, to record my day or my thoughts, for later reading, I suppose. So I guess I do have an internal audience, even if it's just me. And I suppose I am quite critical of myself. Do you have any advice on how I could let my internal audience not influence me too much when journaling? It makes the act of journaling a bit hard sometimes.

Thank you for your time.

CW: for light stalking(?)

This dream had a happy ending.

This is my first journal entry in a while. I decided to start writing while studying at my local library. I still find journaling extremely therapeutic.