Journaling for Creative Writers: Boost Creativity, Beat Writer’s Block.

1. Introduction: Daily journaling prompts for creative writers. That is the course title, Daily JournaliPmpt, for creative writers. This course will empower you to cultivate inspiration and also beat writer's block. My name is Da Mila. I am a dedicated educator, author, and course creator committed to helping individuals and businesses cultivate inner resilience and enhance overall well being. By the end of this course, nerds will be able to develop a daily journaling practice. Understand how Journalin enhances, clarity and inner well being and learn how to integrate it into a sustainable daily writing habit. At the end of this course, learner will be able to understand how Journalin creates and enhances creativity and how it enhances clarity, how it also supports inner well being. Also they will be able to integrate it into a sustainable daily habit. It becomes a daily habit for them to journal Number two, by the end of this course, nons will also be able to use stream of consciousness writing to assess ideas. You're able to use stream of consciousness writing to assess creativity and ideas buried deep inside you. Then number three, you are able to craft vivid settings and atmospheres. Number three, you are able to craft vivid settings and atmosphere. Number four, you are able to create original characters, through prompt. At the end of this course, you will be able to create wish and original characters through prompt. Annel inner energy into creativity, into creative expression. At the end of the course, you will be able to channel your inner energy, your inner strength into creative expression. Number six, practice writing realistic dialog and voice. At the end of this course, you will be able to practice writing realistic dialog and voice. Number seven, you will be able to generate original plot ideas and story concepts. Generating original plot ideas and story concepts becomes easy for you. Then number eight, you are able to design a personalized journalist system for a long term creativity. This course is designed for. This course is designed for creative writers of all levels. No matter what level you are, no matter what stage you are, this course is designed for you. Number two, it is also designed for aspiring novelists and storytellers. If you are an aspiring novelist and storytellers, if you are working in a short story screenplay, the journalist prompts in this course will help you deep in your characters, settings and plot ideas. Writers struggling with writer's block. Those feeling stuck uninspired or creatively drained will benefit from the mindset shifts and practical exercises offered to overcome creative loss and saved out. Then number four, journals waiting to write more creatively. If you are already keeping a journal, I want to transition into a more imaginative or story driven writing, then this course will show you how to do that. Busy individuals seeking a daily creative outlet for people with limited time who want a manageable, fulfilling daily practice that supports inner wellness and creativities. This course is also for you. Course module. Let's take a look at the modules that are in this course. The lessons in this course. Number one, welcome. This is where you'll be properly welcoming to the course and we also treat the power of journaling for writers. Module two, stream of consciousness writing, we will consider that. Then Modu three, character development prompts. Lesson four, setting up atmosphere journals. Module five, inner energy driven prompt, six, dialog and voice journaling. Module seven, prompt, prompting plot and story ideas. Modu ate writing from dreams, memories, and real life. What are you waiting for? Let's go right into it and let's get started right away. 2. The Power of Journaling for Writers : Mod one, the power of journaling for writers. In this mode, we want to consider what the power of journaling for writers is, how the power looks like for writers. Introduction to the course. Welcome to Daily Journaling prompt for creative writers. In this course, you will discover how Daily journaling can become a wellspring of creativity and a powerful tool to beat writer's blog. In this course, you will discover how Daily Journal Journaling Daily can be a wellspring of creativity for you and also a powerful tool for you to beat writer's blog. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned writer. This journey will help you develop a consistent writing habit that sparks inspiration and improves your writing flow. Topic one, importance of daily journaling for creativity. Daily journaling is more than just writing about your day. It's a dedicated space to explore thoughts, experiment with language, and let your imagination roam free. For creative writers, journaling is a low pressure environment that allows ideas to surface without judgment. If you are a creative writer, journalin is a low pressure environment for you that allows your ideas and creativity to surface to come up without any form of judgment. By writing daily, you capture thoughts that could turn into stories. You exercise your creativity modules consistently. You build momentum and reduce the fear of the blank page. When practice regularly, journaling becomes a creative warm up. Priming your brain to shift into writing mode easily. When you practice journaling daily regularly, you do it regularly. It becomes a creative warm up. Priming your brain to shift into writing mode easily. Two, that's topic two, benefit of journaling for writers. Journaling brings several insights and practical benefits that fit directly into your creative writing process. Clarity. Journaling helps you on tango complex thoughts and insight. When your mind is clearer, your story becomes sharper and more focused. Did you get that? When your mind is clear, your story ideas become sharper and more focused. Flow. When you write without overthinking, your ideas begin to flow naturally. Daily journaling removes creativity blocks by allowing you to write imperfectly and free. Idea generation. Your journal is a good mind of inspiration. A single sentence written during a journalist session can blossom into a poem, short story or even a novel. Creativity release. Creativity energy often gets blocked by internal noise, something like saved out. Journalism provide a safe space to release those creativity, free you to write authentically and bravely. Three. How Joal helps beats writer's block. Writer's block is often a symptom of perfection, pressure or lack of direction. Journaling counters all three. When we talk of perfectionism, we talk of pressure, we talk of lack of direction. Journaling counters all the three. No rules, no pressure. Journaling doesn't need to be good. I just needs to be done. All you need is to do it. It doesn't have to be good. A space for messiness. You can write badly, you can write honestly and openly without fear of judgment. Nobody is auditing you, nobody is judging, you are not judging yourself, so you can write as you like. Prompt provided direction. A blank page is intimidating, but a simple prompt can ignite the spark needed to start writing. Just a single prompt can ignite a spark. All you just see is that you just start writing, you continue writing just from a single prompt. Over time, Journalin trains your mind to write, even when you are not inspired. When you do journaling for over a long period of time, it's program your mind to write, even when you are not prepared, when you are not inspired, building resilience again blocks. Exercise, reflective journal prompt. Here is the prompt. Ask yourself, why do I write? Then take ten to 15 minutes to reflect honestly on your writing, Jonny. Consider the following questions as you write. What phase drew me to writing? What does writing allow me to express or release? When do I feel most connected to my creativity? What do I hope to gain from my daily journal? Here is the goal of the exercise. This exercise is to help you connect internally with your purpose as a writer. This exercise is to help you connect internally with your goal as a writer. Also the more connected you feel to your wife, the easier it becomes to show up to the page, even on difficult days. So when you are able to provide honest answer, you feel connected to the reason why you start writing in the first place, it becomes easier to show up to the page and start writing, even on difficult days. We are moving to Module two, our lesson two, which is dream of consciousness writing. 3. Stream of Consciousness Writing : Module two, stream of consciousness writing. In this module, we dive into one of the most powerful and librating journaling technique for creative writers, which is stream of consciousness writing. This style of journaling helps bypass perfectionism, silence your inner critique and unlock raw hibited creativity. Topic one, free writing to unlock the subconscious. Free writing, also known as stream of consciousness writing, is a practice where you write continuously for a set period without stopping to think, edit, or censor your thoughts. The goal is no quality. The goal is to achieve flow. These techniques helps you assess your conscious thoughts and inner insight. It helps you tap into creativity ideas you don't know you heard. It helps you release internal cluster that blocks inspiration. Think of it as a Tony on faucet. At first, the water, which is your words may come out muddy or slow. But if you keep it running, eventually, it becomes clear and steady. Writers often discovers surprising themes, character ideas or insights or insightful truths in the way they initially thought was nonsense. Writers usually discover surprising themsharacter ideas or insightful thoughts in what they initially thought was nonsense. When they start writing, they thought it's nonsense but. As time goes on, they discover surprising them character ideas and insightful truth in what they initially thought it was nonsense. Topic two, tips to silence the inner critic. The biggest obstacle to creativity flow is softwood our own inner voice. The critic that says, This is dump or you are not a real writer. That critics that says that keep telling you your idea is dumb, that keep telling you you are not a real writer, or you cannot go far with your writing dreams. The key is to keep going. Even if your mind says, I don't know what to write, write exactly that, right? I don't know what to write. Your brain will soon offer something else. Stream of consciousness writing teaches you to ignore that voice by spelling and grammar, don't matter. Let go or full. So while you are doing stream of consciousness writing, the spelling the grammar does not matter. Don't forget the rules. Forget English grammar rules. No bag space. If you are typing, resist the ge to correct mistakes. Dust keep typing. Keep going. Permission to ramble. You might start writing about your brief first and end up discovering a brilliant short story idea. You are just writing about your brief first and an idea may just drop in your mind. That is what stream of consciousness writing does. Topic three, how to set a timer and just let go. To get the most from stream of consciousness writing, structure your session with a time limit just like a workout. This creates a container for your creativity. Um, this creates a container for your creativity. You know there's an end in sight which helps reduce resistance. Step by step guide. Pick your prompt or starter freeze. You'll get one shortly. Of course, I'm going to give you one shortly. Let's go. Set a timer for five to 15 minutes. Beginners might start with five to 10 minutes. But make sure you set a timer for this. Start writing immediately. Don't overthink it. Whatever comes your mind, whatever crosses your mind, put it down. Keep your pen moving or finger typing, no matter what. Just keep going. When the timer goes off, stop, read it later if you want, but no editing during the session. Stream of consciousness prom, this is an exercise for you. Here is the prom. Start with the phrase I remember. Whatever is it that comes to your mind, whatever is it you remember. Write continuously for 10 minutes, letting your thought flow freely. You might recall a childhood memory. Describe an imaging event or start with one image and end in a completely different place. Don't try to shape it. Just follow the words, keep writing whatever comes your mind, whatever you remember. Your goal, let's go of structure, fear, and control, embrace whatever comes out. This is not about writing well. It's about writing freely. We are going to the next module, the next lesson, which is lesson three, character development prompt. So let's go. 4. Character Development Prompts : Module three, character development proms. You want to take a look at character development proms in Module three. In this module, you learn how to use Journaling as a tool to create vivid, believable and insightfully rich characters. Great storytelling depends on compelling characters and Journalin can help you explore your inner lives in a deep, authentic way. Topic one, creating original characters through Journalin. How can you create original characters using Joalin? Let's check it out. Journaling can be more than just personal. It can also be fictional. One powerful use of journaling for creative writers is to create and develop original characters. Instead of starting with outlines or character templates, try getting to know your characters by writing as them. You write as if you are those characters, exploring their fears, dreams, values, and voice, letting them talk directly to the page. By Joalin as your character, you assess the same internal landscape you choose. You assess the same internal landscape you use for yourself, making your character feel real and alive to readers. I hope you get that. By Joalin when you journal as if you are that character, you assess the same internal landscape you use for yourself. So making the character feel real and alive to your readers. So ways to begin. Ask your character questions in your ore. Ask your character questions in your genre like an interview. Describe your childhood, first heartbreak or proudest moment. Let them rant about something that annoys them. This creative play builds death, quacks, and back story naturally. So when you do this, it builds up back story naturally. Topic two, writing character back stories and monologues. Every memorable character has a past, and the more you understand it, the more believable your story becomes. Jolin is an idea space to build back story without needing to publish or finalize it. So you can use Jolin to build back story without having the need to publish or finalize whatever is it you have Joal. Try writing. Try writing the scene from your character's childhood. A first person accounts of a life changing events. You try writing a first person account of a life changing events. A monologue, where they confess something they've never told anyone. You try to write a monologue where they confess something they've never told anyone. These donor entries reveal inner triggers and motivations. When you do all those, it reveals inner triggers and motivations. Hints about how your character might behave under pressure. It also reveal hints about how your character might behave under certain pressure. Then it also reveal teams that could drive your plot forward. When you are writing, you can write with different tango different teams. When you now going into journaling for the purpose of creative writing, it also reveal teams that could drive your plot forward. You are not just telling who they are, you are letting them show you through their own words. Topic three, journaling from a character's point of view, POV. Writing from your character's point of view allows you to immerse yourself in their mindset. You are able to place yourself in their head, the way they think, the way they behave, the way they react, the way they respond. It's like acting on the page. You step into their shoes and experience the world through their eyes. Benefit of POV journaling, benefit of character's point of view, journaling. Number one, it deepens your understanding of your characters in the world. Because you have come to understand the mindset and the behavior of your character, you're able to write in such a way that when your audience, when your readers pick up and they read about what, what you have written down, those characters come alive. Those characters you are watching the movies like those characters are acting right in front of them. The reason why you are able to achieve that is because you have put yourself in the position of your characters. It helps establish a unique voice and tone for each character. It inspires dialogue, scenes and insightful acts in your stories. To do this well, to be able to do character point of view journaling well. All you need to do is imagine what your character is feeling right now. At that time, you want to do the journaling. Imagine what your character is feeling. Use language they would actually use. And this will be possible because you have put yourself in their shoes, you have put yourself in their head, you understand them. You know the word they will use, the way they will present a certain world, the way they will react. Use language they will actually use. Are they poetic? Are they blonde? Are they sarcastic? Use the language, they would actually use. Think about what they fear, what they want, what they regret. This arts insightful death POVgonalin is especially powerful when exploring dramatic or its moments. When you do POVgonalin it's helpful when you are exploring dramatic or take moments. Exercise, character POVgonalin prompts. Write a journal entry as your character, the night before a big event in your life. Write a journal entry as your character. As your character will have done it. As your character will have do the journaling. You are doing it in place of your character, the night before a big event in your life. This could be a character's final nights before leaving their hometown. The nights before a confession or confrontation. The nights before a wedding, bathroom, job interview or secret mission. Instructions, write for ten to 15 minutes your character's voice. Focus on their inner state, fear, excitement, guilt, anticipation, what they want to happen and what they fear will happen. Any secret regrets or dreams they hold close. Now, the goal of this exercise is that it helps you capture inner states characters voice and motivation. By the end, you likely feel more connected to your character and ready to write their story. The goal of you doing this exercise is that it helps you to capture your character's inner states. It helps you to capture your character's voice. It helps you to capture your character's motivation. By the end of this, you are connected more to your character and you are ready to write their story. We are going to the next model. In the next module, we will be looking at setting and atmosphere Jenas, setting and atmosphere genas. Let's go for it. 5. Setting and Atmosphere Journaling: Model four, setting and atmosphere enals. We will be taking a look at setting and atmosphere jurals in Model four. A vivid setting doesn't just provide a backdrop. A vivid setting doesn't just provide a backdrop. I breathes life into your story. A vivid settings breed life into your story, shapes your characters, and sets the expression ton of each scene. That is what a vivid settings does. It sets the expression of each scene. In this mode, you learn how to use Jolin to craft rich sensory words that pull readers in and make your writing more immersive. That's why you are going to learn in this module. Topic one, visualizing places with descriptive journaling, Visualizing places with descriptive journaling. Before writing a full scene, journaling can help you explore and sketch the setting with creative freedom. That is what journaling can do for you. It can help you explore and sketch the setting with creative freedom. Descriptive journaling is a space to play with your imagination and sharpen your observational skills. When we talk of descriptive journaling, it is a space where you can play with your imagination and also sharpen your observational skills. Why this matters. It helps you avoid vague and generic descriptions. It grounds your characters in a tangible believable world so that when your audience are having an encounter with your character, they believe what they are reading, they believe what they are seeing. How to practice. Write about places you know, your bedroom, a favorite cafe. Invent settings for your stories, a haunted house, a distant planet. Invent settings. You are good to invent the settings, invent settings for your stories. Blend boots for realism and creativity. Blend boots. Meaning when you write about the places you know, then you invent settings for your story. Then you now blend boot for realism and creativity. Instead of just saying it was cold, describe the frost on window panes, the crackles of firewood, the way breath hangs on the air. I hope you get there. It's just of you just saying it was cold. You are going to describe there's so many description here for you to paint the picture that it was cold. So for you to say it was cold, you are going to describe the frost on the window panes, the crackle of the firewood, the way bread hangs in the air. All this is for you just to describe how cold it has been or how cold it was. Aim to show, not tell. So you are showing it if you say, it was cold, you are telling us it was cold. But when you now describe, you are describing it as if your audience are present. They are there. You pull them out of their comfort and you put them inside the scene. That is why you aim to show, not to tell. Using the scenes to build immersive words. Topic two, using the scenes to build immersive worlds. Great settings descriptions, go beyond what things look like. Great settings descriptions, go beyond what things look like. They engage all five senses. You are going to engage all the five senses, and that was why I made that example of it was called. You are engaging all the five senses of your readers. Journaling helps you tune into these details and translate them into compelling imagery. Ask yourself, sight, what do I see? Colors, lighting, shapes, contrast. Sound. You ask yourself, what bagund noise is present. All this is going to give you the idea of how you can describe your settings. Remember, you want to show, you want to show your audience as if they are there, not just to tell them. What bagund noise is present, silence, wind, or voices. Smell, is the air fresh still sweet or smoky? These are the things you are going to describe in your scene. Touch, what texture or temperatures are noticeable. Taste are flavors in the air or food nearby. This would give you the idea of what description, your background description is going to look like. You see multiple senses helps readers feel like they are inside the scene, not just reading about it. When you apply multiple senses, you engage multiple senses of the readers. I feel like they are inside the scene. First, they believe the character. Now, you are making it look like they are right inside the scene, not just reading about it. Remember I said earlier that you want to show them, not just tell them. Okay. It's also set the atmosphere up is setting, cozy, tense, airy, or chaotic. This will also set the atmosphere up for you. Ptef. Look at this example. Write with specificity. The scent of cinnamon and old paper, is more evocative than it smell nice. Inside of you saying it smell nice. You say the scent of cinnamon and old paper. Now, the reader is already pulled in because you are telling them that the smell in the environment it smell like cinnamon and old paper. So when you say instead of you just saying it smell nice, smell nice like what? If you say it smell nice, you are not showing them, you are telling them. But when you now say the scene of cinnamon and old pepper, you are showing them, you are showing it to them and it makes them feel like they are right there where the event is happening, and that is what you want to achieve. Topic three, topic three, writing from memory versus imagination. When journaling about setting, you have to reach sources memory and imagination. Writing from memory is grounding. It draws from real experiences and insights. When you write from memory, you draw from real experiences and insights. Think of a childhood kitchen, your high school hallway or a place you travel to. These memories bring natural detail and authenticity to your writing. Writing from imagination expands your creative range. When you write from your imagination, it expands your creative range. You can create setting that don't exist. When you are writing from imagination, you can create settings that do not exist. Cast to in the cloud underwater cities post apocalyptic ruins. All these you can create when you are creating settings from your imagination, using imagination. Imaginative journaling gives you freedom to invent and explore without limit. You are imagining that those things happened. To settings exist. When you do this, imaginative journaling gives you freedom to invent and explore without limit. Try blending boots. Use read place as inspiration, then tweak the colors, lightning or culture to create something entirely new. So now, I am advising you to blend boots experience and imagination, both memory and imagination, you are going to blend boots together. And in doing that, you are going to use red place as inspiration. Then adjust blend adjust, tweak the color, tweak the color, the lighting and the culture, to create something entirely new. John Allen is a perfect playground for that mix. Why you now want to mix both the imagination and the memory together, Jo Allen is a playing ground for you to mix both together. Size, setting and atmosphere journal prompts. Prompt, describe your ideal writing location. Include sights, sounds, smell and texture. Describe your ideal writing location, include sights sound, smell and texture. Instructions. Write for ten to 15 minutes as vividly as possible. Imagine every detail, the furniture, the lights, the background, the background noise, the smell of coffee or books, the feeling of the here under is it indoors or outdoors, modern or rustic, real or imagined? The goal of this exercise is that it helps you sharpen your descriptive skills and better understand how atmosphere impacts creativity. When you do this exercise, you do it very well. It sharpen your descriptive skills and better understand how atmosphere impacts creativity. It also gives you a template for writing immersive settings in your fiction. Next, we are going to the next model, which is Module five, Insights driven prompt. Let's go. 6. Insight Driven Prompts: Mod five. Our lesson five is insight driven prompt. Creative is the soul of storytelling. Being creative is the soul of storytelling. In this module, we explore how to tap into your insightful experiences and transform them into powerful relatable writing. By assessing your inner world through Journalin, you can bring greater depth, authenticity and impacts your characters and sins. By tapping into your inner world through Joalin, you can bring greater depth authenticity and also impact. You can also bring great impacts to your characters and sins. Topic one, using insightful memory as creative ware. Inner insight leave powerful imprint on our memory. When something makes us cry, laugh uncontrollably, or rage with frustration. We remember not just the event, but the way it made us feel. Why this matters for writing? Creative makes your writing more relatable and engaging. It provides authentic details that resonate with readers. Helps you write from the heart, not just the head. How Journalin helps. How journaling helps. When you journal about a real insightful experience, you reconnect with how it felt in your body, your thoughts, your behavior. These moments become raw material you can draw from when writing scenes. When you journal about your insightful experience, how it felt, how it felt, what the thoughts, how you responded to it, it becomes a natural raw materials that you can draw from when you are writing scenes. Whether you are crafting a tragic romance or a triumphant comeback, you do all this. Instead of just imagining how a character might feel in a situation. Instead of you just imagining how your character feel in a situation, you tap into similar experience. And you reconnect with similar experience, how your body felt, how your thoughts, how you responded, and how you behave. It becomes a raw material which you can tap f to write about your scene. Instead of just imagining how your character feel, you are also tapeningo such similar experience that you've had in the past. Topic two, exploring personal highs and lows. To grow as a writer, you must be willing to explore your insightful extremes, both joyful and painful. This builds courage, self awareness, and insightful vocabulary. Start by journaling about a time you felt deep joy or freedom, a moment of loss, betrayal or sadness, a period of confusion, excitement, or love. The goal is not to judge. You are not judging, that's not the goal, but to observe and understand. The goal of you journaling from your highs and lows is for you to observe and understand what the triggers are. How did it affect your thoughts, speech, and body? What did you want or fear most in that moment? This inner clarity allows you to create characters that act and feel like real people, not glitches. We now seeing the advantage now. It allows you to create characters that act and feel like real people, not glitches. The more you know yourself, the better you can write about others. The more you know yourself, the better you can write about others. Topic three, channeling insight into fictional scenes. Once you've journaled about a real insightful experience, you can use it as the foundation for your fiction. We have tutored how to do insightful experience journaling. You can go back to it to understand it better. Now, when you do it, it can become the foundation for your fiction writing and here is how to do it. Take the core insight, Ed anger, guilt, fear, excitement. Imagine a new context, for example, a fantasy bat to a family dinner, a courtroom. Apply the insights to a fictional character and ask, how would they express these feelings? If your character is to be in that experience, in that your past experience, in that your memory, how would your character express the feelings, the feelings of anger guilt, fear, excitement? How would they express it? Would they hide it, lash out or breakdown? How is your inner tie different from yours? You are not writing autobiography. You are using your insightful truth to inspire fictional truth. When you do all this, you are not writing autobiography. You are using because you have also been there, you are tap into your experience and now creating a fiction from it. So you are using your insightful truth to inspire fictional truth. This is one of the most powerful ways to create insightful resonance in your writing. It is one of the most powerful way to create resonance in your writing. Exercise. Insight food driven genre prompt. Prompt, write about a moment you feel write about a moment you felt deeply. Whether it was joy, anger, grief, love or fear. Describe it in detail using all your senses. Remember, I have told you that you have to engage all senses in order to make your readers feel they are part of the scene. You are showing them, not telling them. You have to engage all the five senses. Then imagine how a fictional character might react differently in that moment. Instructions, spend 10 minutes, John Alan about your insightful experience. Be honest and descriptive. We have treated how to describe scenes, how to describe situation, how to set up the atmosphere. We have treated, please go back to that so that you can understand this very well. Instruction number one, spend 10 minutes, John Alen about your insightful experience. Be honest and descriptive. Then write five to 10 minutes from a character's perspective. How might someone older, colder, more impulsive, respond to the same experience? The same insightful experience you wrote about which you described, how would someone older, younger than you, coder, more impulsive respond to that same experience you had? Does your character suppress inner energy or exaggerate it? What decision will this insight driven? What decision will these insights drive them to make? This insight, what decision would drive them to make? The goal of this exercise is to strengthen your ability to translate real insight into story. The goal of this exercise is for you to be able to translate your real experience, your memorable experience into real story. Enhancing both your self awareness and your writing range. It will also enhance your self awareness and your writing capability. It also teaches you to write character reactions that are grounded in truth but shaped by personality. Next, we are going to the next mod, which is mod sees dialog and voice journaling, dialog and voice journaling. 7. Dialogue and Voice Journaling: Model C. We are now on our Lesson six, which is titled dialog and voice Journalin dialog and voice Journaling. Dialogue is more than just character talking. Dialogue is more than your character just talking. It's how they reveal who they are, how they present who they are, how they express who they are, what they want, what their desires are, and how they clash with others. In this module, you learn how John Allen can help you sharpen your dialog writing skills. Distinguish character voice, and craft realistic conversations that move your story forward. That is why you are going to learn in these modulus. You learn how you can use Journaling to sharpen your dialog writing skills, and how you can also use Jolin to distinguish characters voices and craft realistic conversations that move your story forward. Topic one, practicing natural dialogue through Journaling. One of the best way to develop realistic engaging dialogue is to practice it frequently. If you want to develop realistic and engaging dialogue, you have to practice it frequently and John Allen gives you a judgment free space to do that. In your drive to practice frequently, John Allen gives you a judgment free space to do that. Why it matters. Dialog bring energy and motion to your story. It's how characters express inner insight, make decisions and reveal secret. That's why dialogue is very important. It's how characters express inner insights, make decisions and reveal secret. Realistic dialogue keeps readers engaged and make scenes come alive. If you use dialog they are very realistic, it engages your readers and make your sin come alive. Journalist strategies. Write imagined conversations between characters in every day or high stakes situations. Focus on how people talk, not just what they say. Focus on the delivery mode of people, the way they deliver what they talk about, the way they deliver what they say, not just what they say. Focus your attention on how people talk, not just what they say. Avoid overly formal or robotic speech. This is important. Avoid over or robotic speech. Think, pauses, interruptions, slang, repetition, silence. Okay? Journaling like this helps train your ear to write how people actually speak. Natural, imperfect. Journaling like this, when you journal like this, what I thought the journalist strategies. When you journal like that, it helps you to train your ear to write how people actually speak. Doing that, you avoid this robotic dialogue and overvalue format dialogue. Two, capturing unique voices and speech patterns. Each character should sound like a real person, not like every other character or was like you. Each character should sound like a real person, not like every other character or was like you. Through journaling, you can explore your character's unique voices by driving into their background. You drive into their age, culture, region, education, social class, personality, are they shy, bright, sarcastic, gentle, insecure, intentions, what they want in the conversation, and what they are hiding. This Thiefs to develop voice. Give characters verbal quarks, EG, a catch phrase, bite crossword, filler word like you know, you see, you understand. Play with dim. Today speak in long monologues or shorts, snappy phrases. Donna in first person for each character to get deeper into how they think and talk. This is more like This is more like you are getting into the head of your character. You understand how your character think and how your character talk. This kind of journaling builds authenticity, and that is what you want to achieve. It builds authenticity and makes it easier for your readers to instantly recognize who is speaking without needing a name tag. When you build voice this way and you make your readers to get familiar to the pattern of speaking of each of your character. When your character is speaking or one of your character is speaking, your readers don't need a name tag. They are already familiar with that pattern of speaking. And you can do that, you can achieve that through Journaling. This Journaling builds authenticity and makes it easier for readers to instantly recognize who is speaking without needing a name tag. This is possible because you have gotten into the end of your character. You understand how your character, how your character talk, and you have developed a pattern of talking and thinking of your character, and you have introduced it to your readers. When your character speaks, they know that this is the character that is speaking. They don't need a name tag to it. Topic three, Joalin as character conversations. Instead of Joalin about your character, try Jonal as your character or letting them talk to each other. Instead of Joalin about your character, Joal as your character would have Jona. You journal as if you are that character, or you let your character have conversation with one another. What this or looks, you discover how your characters feel about each other in real time. It reveals hiding tension, conflicting values, or surprising chemistry. You can experiment with argument, sub test and insightful bits in a low pressure setting. Examples, two characters disagree on how to handle a crisis. A heartfelt reunion between a strange friends, a power struggle between a mentor a power struggle between a mentor and a rebellious student. Writing these interactions as a raw dialogue without worrying about narration or setting can sharpen your ability to capture conflict, pacing and character intention. When you do this, it's sharpen your ability to capture conflict, pacing and character intention. Exercise. Dialogue only sing prompt. Write a dialogue only syn prompt between two characters who have opposing goals. Instructions. Choose or invent two characters. Give each one a clear clashing desire. You are to invent two characters, give each of the character a clear and clashing desire. Example one wants to end a relationship. The other wants to save it. I'm giving you an example here now on Instruction one. What I'm trying to express to you that you should choose or you invent two characters. Then you give each a clear and clashing desire. The example I'm giving you here is that one wants to end the relationship and the other wants to save you can see that their desire is clear, the number two, it's also clashing with each other. Or one wants to go on a dangerous quest. The other begs them to stay. So that's clashing. Write their interaction, using only write their interaction, using only dialog, no narration, no description. Just write their interaction, using only dialog. Focus on voice distinction. Can we tell who is talking? So when your readers with, can they tell who is actually talking between the two characters without you mentioning the name of the character. Rising tension or insightful shifts. You focus on rising tension between the characters and insightful shifts. Sub test, what's not being said? What's not being said in the conversation. Go. This exercise trains you to craft dialogue that carries the weight of the scene without relying on action or exposition. That exercise that I gave to you, it allows you to train yourself to be able to craft dialogue that carries the weight of the scene without relying on action or exposition. It also helps you fine tune your character's voices, motivations. Next, we are going to the next module, which is Module seven, lesson seven, prompting plot and story ideas, prompting plot and story ideas. Let's go writing. 8. Preparing Plot and Story Ideas: Module seven, which is also our lesson seven, prompting plots and story ideas, prompting plots and story ideas. Plot is the engine that drives your story forward. Plot is the engine that drives your story forward. Whether you are writing flash fiction or a full length novel, Jolin can help you unlock, exciting ideas and shape them into compelling narratives. Whether it's flash fiction or a full length story, Jolin can help you unlock fresh, exciting ideas and shape them into compelling narratives. This module focuses on using journaling to generate story concepts, craft conflicts, and develop narrative direction. Topic one, journaling to spark plot twist and premises. Journaling to spark plot twist and premises. Plot Twist and story premises often come from unexpected combinations, sudden insights or insightful ish. What if moments. Or insightfully ish. What if moments. Journaling gives you space to bring stone freely without the pressure of perfection. So you can bring stone freely without the pressure of perfection using Journaling. Why journaling helps encourages creative risk and odd ideas, helps you make connections between unrelated thoughts, gives bets to original story lines, so plots and climaxes. Example, journaling questions. What is the worst thing that could happen to my character right now? What secret is this character hiding that could blow up later? Can you see how you can apply journaling? What does my character believe that could be proving totally false? Topic two, seeing what if conflict based prompt. At the heart of every plot is conflict. A problem your character cannot ignore. What if John AaliPmts are powerful tool to drop your character into trouble dilemmas, or impossible decisions. If you want to drop your character into trouble, you want to drop your character into dilemmas. You want to drop your character into difficult positions or impossible decisions. What if John AaliPmpt is the best tool for you to use. Example of what you prompts. What if your character hurt to lie to someone they love? What if the valiant turned out to be the hero's sibling? What time reno What if time rewound and only your character remembered what happened. By writing through these scenarios, you not only generate story ideas, but you also start structuring conflict. When you write based on these prompts, you just don't generate story ideas, but you also start structuring conflict as well. The backbone of all good plots. Structuring conflict is the backbone of all good plot. When you journal this way the example I'm giving you using what if and conflict based prompts, you are able not only to generate the story ideas, but you also start structuring conflict as well, which is the backbone of all good plots. Thiefs Focus on choices. A strong plot revolves around characters decision. Race stakes ask, so what and what happens if they fail? Mix the ordinary with the extraordinary EG, a routine job interview becomes a government conspiracy. Mix the ordinary with the extraordinary example of that is a routine job interview, becomes a government conspiracy. Journal like this stretches your imagination and gives you a library of plots seeds to develop into full stories. Topic three, bring story short story or novel ideas. Journaling can also help you plan out the entire narratives by capturing bits of scenes, characters acts, and story bits. Strategy for longer ideas. So we want to observe the strategy you can use for longer ideas. Use Bullet journalin or mind maps to connect story elements. You can use Bullet journalin or mind maps to connect story elements. Ask yourself questions like, who is my Ptagonis? What do they want? What stands in their way? How will the story end differently than it began? Story scaffolding prompt. Story scaffolding prompt. Write a one paragraph summary of a story idea every day. List three possible endings to an existing scene. Invent a new word or setting and write words laws govern it. The goal is not to outline perfectly, but to explore story structures and eleate until something resonates enough to build on. The goal to do the story scaffolding prompt is not for you to achieve outline perfectly, but to explore story structures and elements until something resonates enough to build on. Exercise story idea prompts. What if your protagonist woke up in a strange place with no memory of the last 24 hours? Wha post? What if your protagonist woke up in a strange place with no memory of the last 24 hours? Write what happens next. Instructions. One, journal in the first person or third person, using vivid sensory detail to paint the scene. Show your characters confusion, fear, and curiosity as they try to understand what's going on. Start building conflict, drop ins suspicious subjects, strange characters or missing time clues. The goal of this exercise is to develop a mini story premise, from a single prompt and practice the skill of jump starting a plot from a memory of tension. The goal of that exercise is for you to be able to develop a mini story premise, just from a single prompt. Remember the prompt the prompt is that what if your protagonist woke up somewhere else and does not have the memory, lost the memory and does not you understand the prompt. So you are able to develop a mini story premise from just a single prompt and practice the skill of jump starting a plot from a moment of tension. Next, we are going to the next module, and what we consider in the next model, Mod eight, writing from dreams, memories and real life, writing from dreams, memories, and real life. So let's go. 9. Writing from Dreams, Memories and Real Life: Welcome to Module eight, Lesson eight, which is our last lesson for this course. Writing from dreams, memories, and real life. Great writing often stems from the raw material of your own life. Yes, great writing often comes rooted from the raw material of your own very life, your dreams, memories, and real experiences. In this final module, you explore how to mind your personal world for creative inspiration, while developing a deeper connection with your writing. In this module, you will learn how you can mine your own personal world for creative inspiration, while developing a deeper connection with your writing. Topic one, turning dreams into story seeds, how you can turn your dreams into story seeds. Dreams are sure, symbolic and often insightful intense. When captured through journalism, they can evolve into unique and imaginative story ideas. Why write from dreams. Dreams bypass logic and tap into your subconscious creativity. Dreams bypass logic and tap into your subconscious creativity. They are often trash in metaphor and insight. The strange combinations in dreams can create fresh, sorry narratives. The strange combinations in dreams can create fresh sorry narratives. Tips for dream journaling. Here are tips for you to do dream journaling. Keep a notebook or journal or journal up near your bed. Keep a notebook. Keep a Jota or a journal up near your bed. Write immediately upon waking, capture images and fragments. Don't worry about making sense. Focus on mood and symbols. Example practice. We call your dream as it happened. Then write it as a fictional story, expanding or shifting the narratives. So you expand the angle, the them, or you shift the angle or the team. Ask, what could this dream mean for a character? What could this dream mean for a character? Topic two, using personal memories to full fiction. How can you use your personal memory to power to ignite fiction story? Your memories are a treasure trove of insightful truth, whether it's a childhood moment, a turning point or a heartbreak. Writing from memory makes your fiction more relatable to readers. When you write from your childhood moment, t point a outbreak that has to do with your memories. When your readers read your fiction, it's more relatable to them, which also makes the reading more interesting to them. Benefit of memory journaling helps you explore insightful layers, Add realism and honesty to your characters. Turns life moments into sins with conflict and resolution. Turns life movement into sins with conflict and resolution. Steps to use memory in Joalen. Number one, choose a specific memory, positive or painful. These are the steps for you to use memory in Jon. One, choose a specific memory, particular memory. Either it's positive or painful. Two, write it as vividly as possible. What did you see, smell or feel? Then ask yourself, how could this event inspire a fictional scene or character? You can alter names, locations or outcomes while keeping the insightful truth intact? You can change names, you can change locations. You can even change the end of the story, how the story ends, why you are still keeping the insightful truth intact. Example, a memory of moving to a new school could become a story about a character arriving in a strange city or planet. Did you get that? A memory of you moving to a new school could become a story about a character arriving in a strange city or planet. Topic three, observing real life for inspiration, observing real life for inspiration. Everyday life is full of hidden stories waiting to be uncovered. The way someone talks on a bus, the quiet sadness in a cafe, the tension between coworkers. These are seeds for fiction. Out to Joal from life. Observe people, places and moments. Record snips of overhead dialogue or quacks habits or quaky habits. Record snips of overhead dialogue or quaky habits. Ask questions about strangers you see. Ask, what if questions about the stranger you come across. Real life provide endless, grounded inspiration for authentic storytelling. Real life provide endless grounded inspiration for authentic storytelling. The more the more you begin to notice story worthy moments around you. The more it is because you are not journaling. That is why you do not see story worthy moments around you. But when you now start journaling, you start journaling from real life, you will begin to see what you have not been noticing. You will begin to see and notice story worthy moment, story worthy events around you and you see this almost every day. Prompt. Example, prompt. Recall a real dream or a powerful memory. Journal about it for five to 10 minutes. Then rewrite it as the beginning of a fictional story. Recall a real dream or a personal memory. Journal about it for five to 10 minutes. Then rewrite it as the beginning of a fictional story. Instructions. Write your dream or memory as truthful as possible. Number two, identify the insightful core, fear, joy, confusion, or wonder that is buried or attached to that dream or memory. Three, begin rewriting it as a fictional piece. Change characters, setting or outcome. Four, let imagination reshape the real into something entirely new, something entirely different, something entirely interesting. Optional twist, include element from all three sources, a dream, a real moment, and an observation from today and see how they combine. You do a fusion of your dream, a real moment and an observation from today and see how they combine, see how they connect. Closing thoughts for the course, we are gradually coming to the end of the course. You now have eight modules packed with creative journaling techniques to do what to unlock your imagination, to create original characters and words, to deepen your insightful writing, to develop compelling story ideas, to beat writers block consistently. Remember, daily journaling is a creative ritual, not a performance. Is a creative feature that you have to keep doing, not something you do today, you do this week and you come back to it after a week or after a month. You have to be consistent about it and be serious about it. It's a space to explore experiment, experiment, and evolve as a writer. That brings us to the end of this course. I must say that I appreciate you joining me on this course. Remember, all the exercise that is in this course, make sure you practice them, is meant to make you evolve as a writer. It's meant to make you to explore and experiment and be able to deliver a content that is engaging and very informative and also very entertaining to your audience. Thank you very much. See nice time. Bye bye. I