Advice and Tips for Online Journaling

Whether you want to write about your life to clear your head or to inspire others, online journaling is a great way to save your memories for the future. Many social networking websites allow you to write your stories and publish them. Some sites allow you to save them as drafts or make them visible to only you or to a small network of close family and friends. In this way, you can write something when your memory is fresh or when the inspiration to write strikes without feeling pressured to immediately share it with the world. With online journaling you can save all or part of your life story to possibly share at a later time or make it public right away. So here are some tips for making an effective online journal.

Decide what website you will save your journal to. There are several free online journaling sites on the Internet such as tumblr and LiveJournal. You can also sign up for a WordPress blog and save your works as drafts or publish. If you want to share your page with others right away and expect a large amount of traffic, you can also pay to have a URL by getting your own domain name.Learn all the features of the website you have chosen. Just write a few sentences or a quick story. Get a feel for how to use the site to post pictures, videos, or outside links.Decide what you want to focus on. Do you want to write about a single event that happened to you, your response to something you saw, or do you plan to keep a daily journal? Start small.Come up with a theme to tie the posts together. The theme could be as simple as "I did it!" or something more complex like "Good friends make everything bearable." A small theme is good for each individual story post. A larger theme could tie all your journal entries together, such as "My observations about the world from my backpacking trip through Asia."Decide on your intended audience. Are you just writing this for yourself, for close family and friends, or for the public? Is this intended as a 'how to' for other people who would like to do something similar? Your tone will change depending on who you expect to be reading it.Put yourself in the scene. Where were you? What was the weather like? What were you doing? Who did you meet and what did they say? Was it day or night? Paint a picture with your words.Write! It really is as simple as just starting to write and you will probably enjoy it so much that you won't want to stop.

Online journaling is a great way to rediscover things about yourself through your experiences or to preserve cherished memories. Because it is personal, it should require no outside research or "work," and may amount to simply recording your thoughts. Whether you are an experienced writer or a novice, you can gain valuable insights about life by thinking through events. You may discover that other people who read it want to share their stories too!

Taylor Hill, author. Check out a unique online journaling site, LivingAlpha.com and start journaling now one entry at a time. Become a member today it is free to join. Rate this Article

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Taylor B Hill has published 16 articles. Article submitted on October 08, 2013. Word count: 521

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