Fictionalize Your Life: How To Keep A Writer's Diary

1. Introduction: Writing is a craft that preserves practice that deserves a kind of craftsmanship that is difficult to define and sometimes difficult to practice. Of course, there are a lot of people who want to write and there are a lot of people who want to learn how to tell a story, how to tell stories that are true, that are emotionally impactful. But how exactly do we go about practicing this art of writing? My name is RC London and I'm a YouTuber and educator and a writer myself. Over the past few years, I've learned a lot about this craft of storytelling and a craft of setting words down on a page. And along the way, I've accumulated of many practices and techniques that I personally use to better my writing, to practice his craft and to eventually homeless craft too, a level where I could use this magic of words to express ideas, to tell stories, and to influence people with my words. And this course is in a sense, going to be a primer for keeping a diary, for a rider, keeping a writer's journal and many riders ground history had kept these journals around and their journal basically formed the basis for their later, more established works. In this course, I'll explain the importance of keeping a writer's diary and the importance of honing your craft of writing from a craftsman sort of perspective, along with two different ways that you can approach this journal keeping. And at the very end of the course, we're gonna talk about how to establish this writing routine consistently so you don't lose steam after two weeks, after a month. So you can keep this habit consistently going Personal, kept a writer's diary for four years every single day. And I feel like the result from that entire practice was so valuable to me that I feel like this is something that I feel like I should share in a class. So there's no time to waste to stretch yourself in, grab a notebook out, and let's get this class started. 2. Your Reality Is Someone Else's Fiction: I think before we start discussing two specific techniques for how to give a writer's journal or how to ride a certain story about yourself, your day, or how to translate your thoughts into words. The central problem that we have to address is this one problem of what do I write about? So as my journal is simply going to be a collection of my inner thoughts, where is it gonna be something that I keep with me to keep me calm or relaxes something of a brain dump to dump all of my own resolved issues out on a page. And here we have to draw a distinction between the journal and the diary. A journaling and cents is your daily dump is like You don't be your deepest and most intimate secrets out on a page. This is something that you probably want to lock away. This is something that you'll probably want to put in the cabinet and never look at it again in three to four years. But then a diary is in a sense, your place to practice, your place to practice your craft of writing. So the two are very different. So with a journal, It's a very free form. You free associating your thoughts. But a diary, in my case, how I define it is in a sense of place that you dedicate time and energy toward to practice the art of writing, to keep this overall objective of sharpening your craft as you're keeping a diary, as you're keeping your storytelling diary to our very distinctly different. And in this course specifically, we're going to address this idea of keeping a writer's diary, keeping a storytelling line, so to speak. So you're using this book, you're using this word documents are using this habit to deliberately sharpen the way that you write, to deliberately challenge yourself, to push yourself to heights of writing, to push us off the sharpen your prose or practice or dialogue. That's the purpose of a writer's diary. For me, journaling is something that you can do on assigned journaling is something that you can do for yourself. But for the sake of practicing a craft, keeping a diary is, I think for me it's super-important down I think it's one of the lynch pins to my daily writing practice. So after resolving the difference between journal and a diary, I think it's very important for us to talk about this thing. We're talk about this idea of like what do I write about in my writer's diary? I mean, there's so many things to write about. I could write about this. I could write about that. I write about my accidentally encounter with the guy at a convenience store and I can talk about some ridiculous story that had happened to me. I can run about some depressing past trauma. Pierce wanted to key lessons that I've learned that basically guaranteed that I don't run out of stuff to write because the number one thing that stops a lot of people from keeping a diary going or keeping a writer sternal going or writer's diary going, is that they simply run out of stories to tell. They simply run out of a template for them to dive deeper into this art of storytelling. And this key lesson here is that you have to keep in mind that your reality, your daily life, or your description of your reality is someone else's fiction. If you view the world through this lens and that guarantees you that you're gonna start spotting things that to you is kind of normal that to you is borderline just boring. That to you might seem very ordinary, but you have to realize that sometimes your version of your reality is in a sense of someone else's fiction. The entire point of keeping a writer's diary is to allow yourself the space to recount those events and to sharpen them into stories and to articulate them in a way that's accessible to another mind, to another radar. And that's, that's really the whole point of storytelling. You're translating your direct experience and adolescents that you've learned yourself into another mine, into another human beings. So at the end, you have this exchange of consciousness because the brain is a machine. This is a very selective machine. You go through your day and habits of retained sort of anchor you down into these frames of viewing the world. And sometimes you're so used to these frames of viewing the world that you don't exactly have the capacity to jump out of yourself into self-reflect and realize that, hey, I think my experiences are actually pretty unique. If I tell a story about this unique experience, some people might actually enjoy it. Some people might actually get a laugh out of it or get a really good emotional hit out of it. So start looking at the world from his perspective. When you're keeping your diary, when you're trying to write something in your writer's diary, when you're trying to follow the techniques that I will give you in coming classes. Keep this in mind. Whatever you deem as boring, whatever you deem is boring, commonplace, bland, just pedestrian. Force yourself to look at it from a fresh perspective and realize that sometimes your little version of reality because serve as the basis for a really good piece of fiction. And at the end, you really want to be as honest as possible. You don't want to construct a world based on archetypes, but you simply wanted to lean deeper into your own reality and Brian, from that place. And only from that place can you write from a place of emotional integrity or personal integrity? Can you really find your own voice of writing? Can you really find that sort of revelation, that literary revelation that you're looking for from your daily life. So keep that in mind. And in the next lesson we explained the benefits or why is it necessary for us to keep a writer's diary? See you soon. 3. Benefits of Keeping a Writer's Diary : Welcome to this lesson on why is it important to keep a diary for a Reiner, for creative, for a storyteller, for a filmmaker, whatever, whatever you want to call us. So in my mind, there are three very distinct benefits to keeping a writing practice on a daily basis. Through keeping a diary, through keeping this thing in your life that you're going to return to on a daily basis to practice your pros, to practice your storytelling and to practice your writing voice. And the first benefit to keeping a writer's diary, to keeping a riot or storytelling journal is that by repetitively returning to the same set of practices every single diet by repetitively tuning back into your writing world. What's going to happen is that gradually you're going to find your own very unique writing voice, defining your own voice as a writer is one of the most tricky things ever, because it's one of the things that you can't really define within yourself, the presence of an authorial voice. It isn't exactly something that he can pinpoint after writing two to three short stories a year, because it is something that takes years to really fully mature. In that case, it takes a lot of practice just for his voice to become identifiable because the raw element of writing is just words. And if you've graduated from high school, if you graduated from even the elementary school, you know how to set words down on a page, but it's the way that you arrange those words. It's the perspective that you take upon reality. That is where your voice is going to come from. But sometimes there's younger writers. We don't exactly know how to view that reality from frame just yet. We don't exactly know how to look at reality in a certain way yet. And we definitely don't know what we sound like kind of page when we were trying to articulate that in a reality. So in a sense, keeping a writer's diary is your gateway to really exploring that voice of yours. To really allow yourself the space to look at reality and realize that this is the way that I view reality. This is the way that I conceptualize reality and this is what I sound like on a page. So what I would recommend for you is to set aside a long stretch of time, a few years, and return to his diary every single day over to spin it as few years, what you're going to realize is that after years of keeping a diary overtime, you're going to start to develop your own very authentic force overtime. The voice on the page is in a sense, exactly what you're thinking in your mind. And over two years to click back into this preferred way of writing, you'll click back into this voice that you can't help but to use. And when it gets to a point where it feels natural to right. That's how you know, you've found your writer's voice and closely linked to the first benefit of keeping our writer's diary is the second benefit, which is that keeping a daily practice of writing, in essence removes the fear that you have for writing, not gonna lie in writing. It's probably one of the scariest things ever. The infamous writer's block. What do I write about? What if I run out of stories? But it also involves certain degrees of discipline as you lean deeper and deeper into your own voice, as you lean deeper and deeper into your version of reality, as a link deeper into the world of viewers. And as you get better at articulating that world over time, the fear of riding with dissipate over time writing will no longer seem like a big thing. In a sense of removes two romanticism or the mystery from writing and overtime, you have developed a sense of craftsmanship, which really allows you to sit down every single day and treat writing as a sacred craft. Treat writing as something that you need to put time manager toward. And at the end of it, along with your voice and this removal of this fantasy about writing. That's how you actually go on to sit down in front of your desk and practice writing a few of writing really, in a sense, it's just a fantasy. It's a fantasy that you've told yourself that writing is just this big thing where in reality it's one of the most simple things. It's one of the things that you can just do it. You might not do it that well, but over time, as it returned to this craft over and over and over again, the fear will dissipate and you will lean deeper and deeper into your own internal version of reality. And if you combine that with life experience, that's where usually some of the greatest stories come from. The last point that I'm going to bring up in this episode or in the segment of the course about the benefits of PBL writer's diary is probably the point where if you keep a diary long enough, it trains your skill of observation to trains how you observe the world. It trains how you treat people. It trains how you look at events as sets up a really unique frame for you to view reality. Your reality is someone else's fiction. And your fiction, in a sense, should be a direct reflection of some of your intimate experiences. Some of the experiences that meant a lot to you, and that's how you translate your experience into something more profound on the page. But as people were very prone to falling into habits and stiff retains, that's why it makes it very hard for us to jump out of earth, well, realities and to look at our reality from a third-person perspective. But keeping a diary in a sense, it's an invitation for you to look back in your life or look at your life from a third-person perspective. And to really gain that extra dimension of perspective that you'll need if you want to be a good fixture minor, it's all about this process of sharpening your round. It's all about this process of making your reality as crystal clear as possible. So you can look upon his reality with a fresh new appreciation. And it really does make you a better person when you're interacting with people. Because now you're curious because now you're actually interested in people's stories. Now a discussion or a conversations, no, no longer just a discussion where a conversation, every conversation that you have in a sense carries potential to turn into a story of yours, to turn into something that's worth telling, to turn into something that's a more profound than just the daily occurrences. That concludes this episode on the benefits of keeping a writer's diary. And the next episode, I'm going to introduce you to the first diary keeping technique, which is going to be that they've a Severus method. 4. The David Sedaris Method: Welcome to this episode on a first diary keeping technique, which is the Davidson Eris method of keeping a diary entry. And if you've read any of these two collections by Davidson Eris, these're basically he's diary entry collections. This one's from 2003 to 2020, which is the latest David scenarios book. And this one is one of his earlier a diary entry collections, which I would encourage you guys to flip through both of these to get a sense of how they visit Paris recounts events from his life. So a brief summary of those Severus he is as a comedy writer that has this really unique ability to turn events into comedic stories. And if you want to read the best Common Era adding in my opinion, you should check out that it was there says book me talk pretty one day. And I still think that's one of his best collections of short stories. But this episode is going to help you to write about your day, to keep your writer's diary from the frame of view of Davis naris. And let's get started with that right now. Let's right now go back to the quote front of very beginning of the class, which is your reality Asana is as fiction. So if we view this diary keeping business from that David, there isn't a fit from this front view. It simply means that just the act of recounting and event throughout your day, it's just a practice of re-living through that one specific event by writing it down, you are in a sense of ready getting a new point of view of your reality. Because in a heated a moment of an event, in a heated in a moment, everything just kind of looks like life, everything looks flat, looks the same. You don't exactly have time to process anything. You don't exactly have time to write anything down. But if you write about events, if you recount the these events at the end of the day, if you just recount specific events that's going to give you some distance from the event to draw some new lessons out of it. That's going to give you an opportunity to re-frame the savanna into something completely different. One thing that they was there said really struck accordingly, which is that everything becomes funny eventually, this thing could be unfortunate, this thing could be heartbreaking, could be downright awful. But then if you give yourself a day or two, if you give yourself a week, and then you come back to write about this event. Well, what you're going to realize the staff in a heated moment, it was impossible to resolve this event on a spot. But if you give yourself a little space and write about this event again, you can then reclaim a sort of different kind of objectivity to use the Davidson Eris event. Here is what you have to do at the end of every single day, you sit down and you open up a computer document and you write about just one specific event that happened throughout your day. This could be something very minor, a little conversation with the convenience store clerk or a little little conflict that you ran into with one of your friends or something, something spectacular like your house catching on fire. Don't attempt to capture every single little thing throughout your day. Pick one specific event that you've experienced throughout the day and framed out into a story frame that journal very journalistically, into a comedic store and frame yourself as a main character of a comedic, of a comedic tale. And the main difference between this compared to a vomiting in a journal is that this innocence of places you as a character in the story. This in a sense, detach us your emotions from the entire, the entire story in a sense of what you're gonna end up with is a very journalistic recounting of a one-level event that had happened throughout your day and at the end of the day, if you keep enough of these diaries on daily basis. So for the entirety of 2021, I kept one of these every single day. So if you want an example of how I managed to keep all of these diary entries going. I will attach this document in the resources section so you can go download it and read it and get a sense of how exactly to articulate one literal event of your day into a story at the end of the day, if you follow through with this practice, one of two things is going to happen to you. Number one is that you're going to gradually start to gain some objectivity. You're going to start slowly start to build up this unique ability of observation and this unique ability to re-frame events into different frames, into different ways of viewing, viewing your reality. And number two, this is going to really sharpen your storytelling ability because it's not easy for you to turn anything into a story. But this exercise here alone is in essence forcing you to use a concrete event throughout your day and turn that into a story. So at the end of the day, you're going to end up with a lot of diary entries. I ended up with over 300 diary entries. How many computer? At the end of 2021, all of these entries, eventually they're gonna turn into little time capsules for you to relive this moments, for you to relive some things that you've experienced for you to gain a brand new appreciation of these lives experiences. And maybe in a few years you can read them and laugh at them. Because in a heated, in a moment, it was impossible to gain perspective. But now that you have just little time capsule for you to learn lessons from, for you took in distance from. This is a really great way also for some self-awareness practices. So checkout a resources page, I've attached one of my favorite diary entries that have kept home since November of 2020. So you can read that and get a sense of how exactly you can go about articulating your ordinary experiences into a humorous little story. And I would really recommend you to do this every single day to Boone up that consistency and address consistency at the end of the course. But for now, try your best every single day and write a short little story about a very literal event that happened throughout your day in a very journalistic voice, in a very comedic voice, and frame yourself as a detached comedic character. With that they've stairs method and this is not the only technique because in the next lesson we're going to address the true and computing method. And that is a method that I've recently learned in business, the method that I'm going to use now for my diary keeping in 2022. So stay tuned. 5. The Truman Capote Method: Welcome to this class on a trigger encoding method of keeping a writer's diary before we start this class, before we start this episode or this little segment of the class, let me read you something from default word of truth and capacities, early short stories, which is a book that you should absolutely, absolutely. If you want to master it as art of writing a short story and this is in fact something that I'm working on personally. So Truman Kaposi said I started writing when I was eight out of the blue, uninspired by any example. I've never known anyone who wrote. Indeed, I knew a few people who read the most interesting writing and did during those days was to play in everyday observations that I recorded in my journal, descriptions of a neighbor or local gossip, a kind of reporting, a style of seeing and hearing that would later seriously influenced me. So why exactly are we talking about from a company in this episode of keeping writer's diary? Well, I'm glad you asked in this episode, I want to introduce you guys to the carpeting method of keeping a diary, of keeping a diary or a rider sternum. And this is in a sense a step beyond that. They've scenarios method that we talked about are framing yourself as a character of your life, for framing yourself as a comedic character throughout events in your life. But this is in a sense where the hard work is kinda come from business in a sense, the heavy lifting of training yourself into a storyteller is by using the color-coding method. This is the first book that I've ever read from some encoding. And it absolutely caught me by surprise. I was at the bookstore and I was browsing the shelves and I sought from a company's name. And of course, I've heard of Breakfast at Tiffany's and in cold blood, but I've never seen this short story collection anywhere before. I bought it and I read it and was just touched by every single little story in a book. And after reading afford at this book, he became clear to me that there's a real value in framing literal events in your life as full-on short stories, as fictionalized short stories. If the Severus method forces you to observe your reality, then the Truman Kaposi method, in a sense, forces you to fictionalize your own life. In a sense, forces you to turn those raw elements in your life into something that doesn't really exist in your reality. You're no longer the main character of the story. The story is no longer written in a journalistic fashion. But in a sense, if you want to keep this practice going, if you want to utilize the coding method, your innocence, taking a part of your life and turning that thing into its own little world. It is a lot more difficult to do this, but the value that you're gonna get from fictionalizing your reality into something completely different from your own life. This is a crucial practice for fiction writing because it forces you to construct original characters. If forces you to construct the original dialogue. And it could really take you by surprise because you don't know where to plot is gonna go. Because this piece of writing is so far away from your own reality that sometimes when you write down stories, sometimes when you're trying to use the coding method to write a short story every single day. This is going to really stretch your ability to become a world builder, become a master at world-building. And this also applies to fantasy or science fiction writing, is disability for you to construct an entirely different world in your brain. So in practice, this is something that I'm doing actively this year, specifically in practice before for my Davis Hadera Sierra, where I kept a diary entry every single day for a year this year I'm changing things up a little bit and I'm going to stick to the capacity diary keeping technique for me, it basically looks like riding lawn hand on a notebook with a ballpoint pen. I set myself a goal of at least two pages of a really succinct short story of something that has nothing to do with ME, of something that's inspired by events in my own life. But then it's completely sort of like detached from my own life. But if you want to adopt the diary keeping method, I recommend you to start with a Severus David Severus diary keeping technique first, because that's a little easier because you're just retelling a story from your own life. But the capacity method, if it appeals to you, if it appeals to you to build a mini world every single day with your diary keeping than I would really recommend you to give this technique ago. What it's gonna look like is that every single day you're going to force yourself to sit down and write one short story about whatever every single day and made sure these stories are to some level self-contained. So my two pages looks like a completely flushed out short story. And they could be micro fiction, that could be pieces of observation, that could be inner monologue. But then the rule here is that you have to write about something outside of your own life. You have to step beyond yourself to find stories inspired by your own life, but they're not necessarily about you. And just like the last time, I'll even include a short sample of one of the stories in his notebook that I've written as a part of my part of it is practice. You can read it, you can judge it. You can see what I'm trying to do with this diary keeping technique and try it out for yourself. And I would really encourage you to start a project on the project page to showcase some of your own diary, keeping somebody of your own diary, keeping adventurers, and what kind of stories are you conjuring up and what kind of techniques and tricks that you've employed to construct a short story on a daily basis. So in conclusion, that is the Truman Kaposi method of keeping a writer's diary. And in the next episode we're going to talk about how to keep this consistent habit going. Thank you for watching this episode and I will see you in the next one. 6. How To Be Consistent: What you have to realize is that building the habit of keeping a riot or styrene or a riotous journal. It's really in itself an act of habit building and their principles and techniques and tricks that you can employ to ensure that this habit is here. To stay, this habit is going to stay with you to better your storytelling, to better your writing on a daily basis. So you won't feel that fear of like I haven't written in a few months. So you'd always have this one thing to turn back to. Practice your storytelling, to practice your writing. Here's the portion of the class where I discussed a little bit about how to keep a writing habit going. First general tip that I want to give you is that when you start this happen, when you try to write on a daily basis. Because writing is one of these really difficult things to even define us riders in history, they've struggled with not writing enough. Even some defined as novelists. If they suffer from Reiner's blocks, they suffer from the laziness, they suffer from the inability to stick to a writing schedule. But here is the first key pillar to keeping a riot writer's diary habit. You need to start small. And I'm sure you've heard this advice a million times, but you really do need to start small. So often writers have this romantic image in their heads up like a lightning bolt struck me. And now I have to complete this 2 thousand words short story. And what they end up doing is that they write this 2 thousand words short story. And it probably isn't that good because they haven't practiced enough to really capture the story. It's the stories essence. And they go on and never write a short story ever again for the rest of the year. That's not exactly what you want. If you want to treat this as a professional, if you want to treat this as a craftsperson. So as a craftsperson, every single day, you ideally want to write a really small chunk of a story, really small chunk of a narrative, or a really small chunk of your day to keep that habit consistent because overtime consistency really went. Let's think about it. If you write one journal entry every single day, if you want, write one short story every single day at the end of the year, that's over 300 short stories, that's over 300 journal entries for you to first practice your craft and second, maybe your next story collection would have written itself if you kept this habit going right now because I write on a physical notebook, my goal is at least two pages on design notebook a day in longhand. So that's roughly around 300 words, 3400 words. But if you're just starting out, I recommend 200 words has really good benchmark for you to tell a story. Of course, you can write more if you want, but make sure not to burn yourself out. Here. Consistency matters more than any amount of worth that you're setting out on a page. Because if you don't keep a consistent, you're gonna end up writing a whole chunk of a one day and then never ride ever again for months on end. The second pillar to keeping this habit of writing every single day is that you have to set up routine around it, setup something that you enjoy so you can attach that enjoyment of that thing too. You're writing for me, I really enjoy my morning coffee at a cafe. For me, it looks something like heading to a cafe ordering a cup of coffee. And I'm writing those 200 words in my notebook. Humans are in a sense, creatures of habit. And it is up to you to set up those habits or you're a night owl to do prefer to write at night or do you prefer to write during the day? But for me it's very important to set up that infrastructure for me to heading to the cafe first thing in the morning and a right my 200 words and never worry about it for the rest of the day. And gradually there's gonna be this healthy momentum that gets built up because you know that you've completed your 200 words, you know that you've written your word count for today. You know, you've written a pretty decent short story for today. And that allows you to move on to other parts of your life without feeling like you're beyond productive, without feeling like you're losing a grip on your creative, creative power without feeling like, hey, your chicken, hang out for Dubay, look for pleasant retains that you want to install into her life. For me, it's a cup of coffee at my favorite cafe. And for you it might look something like going to a park and writing at a park. Or it might look something like just sitting down a cup of smoothie and I'm writing overnight smoothing or your kitchen table, find these little pockets of enjoyment and incorporate that into your habit. Because momentum and consistency is what's going to really sustain your writer's diary keeping habit. And the last thing is a very important pillar. And this has to do with the medium that you use to keep your diary or keep your writer's journal. So a lot of people asked me. So Robyn, do you prefer writing on a computer or do you prefer writing longhand or do you prefer writing on a bloody typewriter? So the answer is that writing on a typewriter, that's just stupid because no one, no one really wants to touch typewriter anymore these days. And with regards to writing on a computer, I've tried that for a whole year with the Davis terrace method because it's quick because it's easier to organize and it's easier to track the dates and it's easier to organize those stories. Read them when I have to. But the problem that I faced with keeping a diary Ontario and computer is that it didn't really feel like I was writing. I was simply just vomiting wartime. I was simply just opening up a Word document and it never felt quite real. I think it might be a case of personal preference, but whenever I write on a computer, it feels cheap and temporary, and it feels permanent. And also there's a lot of friction to writing on a computer. I have to turn onto thing after load up a Word document. And in 20 thousand windows are gonna pop up like Netflix, like Spotify, like steam updates and not a kind of stuff. They're gonna get a pop up on my screen. And by the time we get to the Word document, I've already lost that momentum to write right now for 2022, after a year of keeping a diary on my computer, I've decided to return to longhand on a notebook with a ballpoint pen because we're moving friction for me is very important. And in case of a notebook, I can just whip this thing out and set it on the table and bright my 200 words on a spot. And also writing with a ballpoint pen kinda like forces me to slow down and consider my word choices. Consider how I'm constructing a story. Consider how am exactly portraying the characters. And it feels a lot more permanent, at least for me, even though sometimes it's a pain in the *** of catalog these things, It's a penalty asked to keep track of auto stories I'm writing. But just from a very aesthetic level, just from a very habitual level. This is a much easier solution for me to keep my Truman capacity diary or for me to keep my trim capacity storytelling diary. So keep those tips in mind and find your happy medium and use whichever technique you prefer. These two techniques that we've talked about, keeping a writer's journal, Wyandot writer's diary. And I look forward to what you might come up with in your diaries, in your journal, and this is going to be an excellent way to start your year. Keep those tips in mind. Remember consistency over amount of words written, and I wish you all the best. And let's dive into the conclusion of this course. 7. So What's Your Story? : At this point in the class, you'll probably itching to start your diary, to start your writers practice, to start your writer's journal and your backlog of audit writing practice that you're gonna do. And here's just a brief note to encourage you guys to really go write your own stories for you guys to really practice this art of storytelling. So after writing now for over a decade, since I was a really young child and now I'm sort of treating writing as my professional activity. Here is one crucial lesson that I've learned. Unless you're in love with the process. Unless you're in love with setting words down on a page, you can't really call yourself much variety beginner writers day. And I fell into the same trap. We tend to fall in love with the idea or the aesthetics of being a writer, or the aesthetics of being a journalist or a storyteller or novelist that we don't actually consider the individual the very, very laborious task of constructing characters and constructing dialogue and just setting words down on a page. What you have to really ask yourself is that am I love with the idea of being a writer or am I actually love with riding? Or you actually excited to implant stories that were originally in your own head into other people's minds. Unless you're ceaselessly in love with the idea of wards, unless you are passionately intoxicated by your favorite authors and you think to yourself, I'm going to create the same thing. So I want to create these characters for myself by myself and I went to write stories that go on to make people cry, laugh, and experienced very rich spectrum of human emotions. And it's probably time to consider and unprofessional. Because this is not gonna be an easy task and this is not gonna be something that you just do for a few months, but this is a lifelong practice and I consider this keeping a diary thing, this diary keeping habit. This is ideally something that you want to keep doing until you're dead because you're gonna be writing anyway, you'll be working on novels, poetry collections, short stories for the rest of your life. If you're devoted to describe, for me, keeping a diary is my anchor. Almost. It's the center of my universe. It's in a sense to Sunday, my solid system, That's my North Star. And this Northstar is basically encased in this commitment to practice this craft on a daily basis. I have no idea where it is. Little venture is going to leave me, but let's just say I'm really, really excited and you have to fall in love with the idea of wards. Have to fall in love with the idea of telling a story. And at the end of the day, it's all about finding that spark of inspiration from your favorite writers. And I think to yourself, whatever it takes, I don't care if it's gonna cost me thousands of hours or tens of thousands of hours. I'm going to write stories. I'm going to craft my own stories in my own voice to a mastering extent. If you keep that little spark along with your diary keeping habit to life, well, you are probably on the path to becoming a really decent, if not masterful storyteller. So in conclusion, keeping this habit is going to be one of the biggest decisions that you ever make in your life. Because this is going to set you apart from wanting to be a writer, to actually be in a writer, to actually practicing this craft on a daily basis. So I would encourage you to post your diary entries and you're a little projects under the Project tab on Skillshare. In that way I can read some of your work and that way I could give you some feedback on your work in that way. I could, in a sense, nudge you in the right direction to help you keep this habit going. Nevertheless, that's all I have for this course and I hope you guys having joined a short-lived course on keeping riders journal, writer's diary. And just at the very tail end of this episode, tail end of this course. Good luck with your writing, and I will see you in the next one.