Journal Craft Inspirations

Head on over to d’Blogga the site of Dawn deVries Sokol for NaNoJouMo – National Nonstop Journaling Month.

“I was just contemplating my own version of NaNoWriMo. (For those of you unfamiliar with this term, NaNoWriMo is held during the month of November, encouraging writers everywhere to write a 175-page novel by midnight, Nov. 30.) …. .. but I’m also starting NaNoJouMo, an idea borne out of a Twitter conversation between myself and Pam McClung and brought to fruition here…It stands for National Nonstop Journaling Month!

Each day during November, I will post a word to get you art journaling. A journal jump of sorts—one word a day to inspire or get you thinking. The goal is to journal SOMETHING in your art journal. DOESN’T HAVE TO BE A FULL PAGE…can be a doodle, maybe painting some backgrounds, doing some collage…just SOMETHING every day in your art journal during November. Even if it’s just moving a pencil across the page in a crooked line…”

Dawn is the author of 1,000 Artist Journal Pages: Personal Pages and Inspirations, and will be providing a journal prompt a day during November – entries are being posted in a NaNoJoMo Flickr group

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Have you been journaling lately or are you stuck in a creative rut?

Image from Caroline’s Crayons (see bottom of post)

Creativity Coach Dan Goodwin recently posted these 7 Creativity Boosters on Ezinearticles.com -

For creative people like us, a sure way to greater happiness is to allow ourselves to become as creative as we can be. But that’s often easier said than done. Here are 7 practical and usable ways to increase your creativity and make yourself happy, starting today: (more…)

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Use your journal to experiment with media you are not familiar with -

From the journal of  Barb Smith
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