The Journey Journal Experience

It’s been a long time since I came around, It’s been a long time since I’m back in town~ ♪ ♫ (Lady Gaga – You and I, nice song). Hope you’re alright fellow blogger. This semester is coming to an end and the professors are starting to wrap up their classes and are assigning the final projects. It’s stressful but It’ll all hopefully pay off when I get the grades at the end of the semester.

Anyway I didn’t make this post to talk about the end of class rush but rather to talk about one of the main projects in my Journey in Literature class, the Journey Journal. The purpose of this journal was to write entries on it about anything I was feeling like writing about, but using the Stream of Consciousness technique. The technique consists of writing anything that comes to mind directly, without any formal structure or the need to worry about spelling or being grammatically correct.

At first, I wrote in a very formal and logical manner. I thought about what I was going to write and how I was going to write it. It basically was explaining a situation and how I felt about it; I corrected my grammar mistakes and I made sure that it was logical and understandable. Towards the end of the journal I could see that I had loosened up more and I focused more on expressing my thoughts directly and not pay attention to the order of them. I wrote about things that I normally wouldn’t write about and I often felt relieved (although sometimes I got mad and expressed my feelings to someone). I got the hang of the Stream of Consciousness technique.

The journal made me realize that I have a lot of internal journeys going on. Writing about them helped me think things through and sometimes made making a decision way easier. I hate writing but I can say that the journal was a pretty interesting experience and a great way to let out some steam. I still prefer writing in the blog though.