Personal Blogs

‘When people ask me how to keep a Diary, I refer them to Ira Progoff's Intensive Journal [method]....One cannot help being amazed by what emerges from this skilled inner journey. All the elements we attribute to the poet, the artist, become available to everyone, to all levels of society.’

Anais Nin

• How to start your diary
• In ‘The New Diary’ Tristine recommends that you:
• Begin with a self-portrait
• Begin with a period
• Begin with today

Each time I come back to a blog after an absence of weeks, months or years I approach it in one of these ways: I assess who I am, go over the previous period when I’ve been away from the diary, and count these musings as my first entry.

From Ira Progoff’s A Journal Workshop seven useful techniques for diary writing are offered:

1. List or Period Log
2. Portrait or Life History Log
3. Map of consciousness (Recapitulations and rememberings)
4. Stepping Stones/Scenes from our lives
5. Twilight Imagery Log
6. Altered point of view
7. Unsent letter
8. Dialogue Dimension

Then read a few inspiring blogs from fellow OU students such as Rosie Rushton-Stone.