1. Who Am I? A Journey into Journaling
John Evans, Project Editor
Growing Pains Series

2. What Exactly Is Journaling?
A conversation with yourself
Time to think about the day
A way to process stressful events
Get things off your mind

3. Set Yourself Up Choose your special book Choose a special time
Choose a special place

4. What to Write About Ask yourself questions Letters
How am I feeling right now?
What happened to me today?
Who are my best friends and why?
Letters
Short stories and poems
Likes and dislikes
Dreams

5. Things That Are Important to Me

6. Are There Rules? Be honest Leave room to make changes
Keep it private if you want
Date your entries

7. Famous Examples
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Diary of Samuel Pepys