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Journaling Is A Cure For Writers Block

I joined Mari L. McCarthy's 27-day journaling challenge, because I had hit a wall. Nothing in my life was moving in a positive direction and I felt abandoned by my muse, yes, I was in the midst of the dreaded writers block? Truthfully, I was in the middle of a life block, it just happened to include writers block. So why, at a point when I didn't know up from down, or east from west did I choose to try a journaling exercise. Why not?

I've been a writer since a very young age, and even kept a diary. It was the teenage girl thing to do, but with three brothers and a sister who loved to torture, keeping a diary wasn't wise so I grew away from recording my life. From a very early age I'd been taught that if I didn't have anything good to say, I shouldn't say it and somehow I transferred that directive to my writing. Some might call those directives survival skills. You know the standby—children should be seen but not heard, after all silence is golden, and a pleasing personality wins the gold star.