How to Start Journaling

Document This Time
You might feel like life is mundane and you have nothing significant to say right now. Keep a journal anyway.
Nicole Peeler
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Apr 6, 2020
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Photo: Cavan Images/Getty ImagesThese are scary times, but they’re not exactly exciting ones. Unless counting toilet paper rolls is your idea of a raging Friday night, you’re probably not living your most thrilling life right now. So why in the world would you want to record it?
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Written by Nicole Peeler
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Novelist and essayist. Director of the MFA in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University. Find out more at http://nicolepeeler.com.
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