As I mentioned yesterday, I am doing a bit of a mental reboot, and I decided to start with my website journaling. I generally know what I have on the sites currently:

I might do some additional topics this year, but that’s the basic premise at least.

From the previous post, I also mentioned that I’m updating/upgrading/tweaking my journaling approach based on some resources about journaling. I went back and reviewed the “journal styles” that Scott Green wrote about in his book, “397 Journal Writing Prompts & Ideas” (2015).

I’m definitely in the personal journal side of things for ThePolyBlog.ca although there are elements that include a travel-journal-style.

For the PolyWogg.ca site, I said it was about professional writing, and maybe that wasn’t really the right nuance (although it captures some of the form and style). More pointedly, it is all about creative writing in whatever form…the only difference is that for the items on that site, I’ll likely collect and curate them into something more formal than a blog. Some of the elements even fit the “scientific / academic” journal style, but that could be for either site at times.

However, I don’t really do “gratitude” elements, and nothing on a friendship journal or prayer journal. I’ve tried, but they didn’t really resonate with me.

The journaling advice included the idea of stepping out of my normal comfort zone and writing about topics that are atypical, or working through a range of familiar topics.

First up? A is for Astronomy