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The Power of Words
Improve your life on paper
I wasn’t expecting tears. When I signed up for a “Personal Essay Writing Course” online, I expected to learn something, improve my writing skills, and maybe even experience a few self-revelations. But I never thought I’d be staring at my computer through teary eyes after the first assignment. That, I have learned, is the power of words.
Whether you dig deep to relate a childhood experience—like I did in my short assignment—or write about your future goals, journaling can be therapeutic, even cathartic. If you enter the task with the right frame of mind, it can also help you achieve your life’s goals.
Journals are no longer relegated to the domain of teenage girls writing about which boy they like. The advent of “blogs” (weblogs) on the Internet means that anyone with something to say (and hordes of people with nothing interesting to say at all) take pen to paper—or fingers to keyboard—to expound upon every topic possible. But you don’t have to be the least bit computer savvy to begin a program of self-improvement through writing. And if you don’t want to share, no one ever has to read your private work. If you do have a yearning to share your creations… well, we’ll get to that later. Why Write?
by Dawn Allcot
Complete story in this issue of DASH.
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