Every Diarist mentioned and the prompt inspired by them: Virginian Wolf : Reflect on a recent chaotic or undefinable moment in your life. How can you use writing to organize or make sense of this chaos? ------------------------------------------------------------ Anias Nin : Write a regular entry to your diary as though you are certain it will be published and read by thousands of people. Did you shift your voice or bend the truth with eyes of others in mind? ------------------------------------------------------------ Maya Angelou : Write passionately and confidently about an injustice that is important to you as though your stance will empower others. How did this experience shape your sense of identity and purpose? ------------------------------------------------------------ Samuel Pepys : Go for a walk and record a hyper detailed description of said walk, paying attention to as much as you possibly can, especially to the moments or visuals that are seemingly mundane. Read it back to yourself. Do you feel you took the walk twice? ------------------------------------------------------------ Franz Kafka : Write a letter to your father, mother, or somebody who governs or had governed what you do with your life. Tell them how you really feel about their influence. If you could send the this person the letter with zero consequences, would you? ------------------------------------------------------------ Anne Frank : Write a letter to someone (or something) you trust. What would you share about your hopes, fears, and dreams for the future? ------------------------------------------------------------ Sylvia Plath : Write a recent emotional experiences into poetry. How dose this reliving the experience via a poem compare to a regular prose style journal entry? ------------------------------------------------------------ Kurt Cobain : Start a journal entry with the phrase “I remember …” and write about a significant moment from your younger years. How dose revisiting this memory affect you in the present?
I lack the self acceptance to embrace the chaos of my own, unfiltered thoughts. Edit: I'm surprised how far I've gotten in two months. Learning self acceptance is difficult but it's the best I've felt in years. I don't hate myself in the way that I used to. I can let myself be. I'm getting better at doing things just for me. I think a little less about what people things and their opinions don't shape me in the way they used to. I'm by no means perfect but that's ok. Things get better, I see that now
@@peacefultsunami i actually took the plunge today and wrote my first journal entry! mainly just setting some boundaries for myself. this video really helped a lot.
@@Sarm8 thats awesome!! I as well took the plunge. i’m so inspired, by this video and by all of you in the comments- best wishes to you in your journey!
my first ever journal/diary was when I was in fifth grade (12 or 13). the subject of my entries was my crushes and I remember detailing about a dance I had with a boy, how his finger gripped my waist and how nervous yet exhilarating it was to dance with him in front of a crowd. one day I came home from school, my parents burned my diary, they said I was too young for any of those. more than being upset about it, i was ashamed. i never named what I felt back then but I realize now how dirty and perverted I thought of myself. i stopped writing then and wrote again in highschool.
thats horrible that they wouldnt let a little girl be a little girl, that they went thru that and that they burned it :(( im glad you are writing agin!!
I've had similar experiences in my younger years. My parents did confiscate my diary, they didn't burn it though, and one of their reasons being I ranted abt their parenting style and stressful home life too much. It did something to my confidence for a while, but not being able to put down thoughts on a piece of papers had felt worse. I'm glad you pick up journaling again! ❤️
I still have trauma from writing in journals because my mom read my journal and used it to shame me 🙃 Now i just carry lifelong guilt and shame for having emotions and feelings.
same, i still feel insecure writing in a physical notebook, scared that my parents will read it again so i continued my pursuit of journaling my life on google doc, but i will forever miss writing in a worn out, self decorated notebook
I love this video. Half of the journaling videos I see are “bullet journaling” and they are all in these crazy formats and if I’m being honest when I’m older I wouldn’t give a single shit about my daily water log in my journal. Plus my brain is not like this, so I started journalling how I really wanted. I normally use to journal not like myself, but then I finally had confidence to write exactly how I feel, I do two pages every night. My journal feels like a window to my brain and now when something bad or sad happens to me a little bit of me is happy I can write it down.
YES! This is how you do it! WRITE, no matter what, no matter where, write! After all, a shoebox can be a journal too. I had one in which I stored empty cigarette packs, paper napkins, pieces of toilet paper and the likes. All with some text I'd scribbled on them. I even wrote on fallen tree leaves. Reading through this journal I see not only the words, but the whole situation in which I wrote it. Love your video, love the way you present your thoughts.
I started a journal for the purpose of logging my progress in my exercise routine. 82 days later it has morphed into something else. I now am in the process of establishing my blog and a CZcams channel. writing is so powerful it helps me think clearly
Your choice of outfit doesn't require a disclaimer. You're dressed really comfy as though an embodiment of a journal yourself. Also, I am impressed by your great efforts for this video
journal about the little treats that you gave yourself that brought your mood up! that way you'll have an overview if what makes you happy and what you prioritize, you never know if your older self will remember them
my prompt (as someone who tends to overthink and ruminate solely on the negative, losing sight of the positive in the process) is: write about a recent happy moment, in detail. however mundane or seemingly inconsequential, if it made you smile write it down :)
Sometimes i forget that i used to journal about anything, and i forget that i can still do it, because our lifestyles just keep us on the go. Sit down with a journal and write until your hand hurts. When we're awake, our thoughts don't stop, so there is always something to write. Instead of being on the phone, grab a journal. It's just as entertaining but much more rewarding.
Early Japanese literature has a whole genre on diaries ("Nikki") written mostly by women (the ones written by men were mostly boring and dull). It might be nice to look into that if anyone's interested.
When you worry that others may read and judge what you write, it blocks you from writing authentically from your own mind and genuine thoughts. Keep your journal with you in a safe space and remember it’s merely a brain dump to help you gain clarity and free up space when you have a noisey mind.
On another note, I’m almost certain my siblings read my journals growing up. Either keep your journal in a lock box, tell the least amount of people possible or mask the cover to look like an uninteresting book. Reading someones journal/diary is an extreme disrespect to their privacy. No one deserves to know all the passing thoughts from anothers mind
@@aidafani5071 oh i understand, that’s hard but I get where you’re coming from. do you think theres anything that could make you feel better about that?? i dont want to say journal abt it since you’re nervous about it haha but if you do think you could do that then writing out your feelings could help you understand why you feel that way
Glad you’re coining creative exhibitionism because WOW. Your obsession with journaling over the past few months has bled into ME and I’m so glad. It’s taught me a lot about writing for me and performance, because I write my journals as if someone else is going to be reading or publishing them in several years. I’m slowly unlearning that, so thank you :)
loved this video! loved that you included kurt cobain and mentioned lyricists, for that kind of writing inspires my own the most! cant wait to try these prompts✨
I don't journal because for many years I felt too much shame and fear. The paradox is that the journals of women in my family who have passed out of this life are all items I cherish. In those journals, I've sometimes sensed the same feelings, the same skepticism about the worth of their writing. To live is to leave traces of ourselves and we should all feel that our marks are worth making. Frankly, it could be that none of us is enough to evaluate the worth of our writing, our art, our journals, so we might as well behave as if it's a given that they're valuable to someone. Especially if that can be our own selves.
The algorithm dropped your channel on my doorstep. I am thrilled to find someone so thoughtful and engaging as you! I am both a visual artist and a writer. The most transformative thing for me was creating and practicing as though no one would ever see it. I allow myself to be selfish. I am simply relaying my experiences to myself in an effort to process them. My ultimate goal with my creations is to remain as raw as possible. Telling the world to turn their eyes while I create it has made it flow effortlessly.
i loved this video so much, was so beautiful, soft, creative and inspiring. i have kept a diary for almost 10 years (im 19) and i´ve always wrote in it through waves and periods until last year when i started writting more heavenly and frequently on it - not just as a necessity to relief and dream and think but also as a necessity to simply wirte. write words on papel. This year i havent written much and a couple days ago ive "found" my taste for journaling again and never felt so good, i feel reconected and "awaken" again, like a part of me was turned off. i need my diary as i need air. i found this video in such perfect timing, thank you so much.
An interesting prompt I was told in therapy is Write a letter from yourself when you were a little child to your present self. I found it very hard and even pointless in the beginning, but once you start thinking about how the little you would begin the letter, what the first thing they would say is, there's a lot you can discover about your present self.
this video is beautiful and your way with words is so easy on the heart , , there’s such a comforting energy and i adore it , , im so glad i stumbled upon this video as i’ve been in a writing slump for a year or so , , i used to write everyday until events happened that caused me to feel rather burnt out , , i used to write small entries in my notes but they were very brief ( i prefer to be more detailed ) yet this video has come at the perfect time , , thank you for posting this , , it’s inspired me to journal again and not be so structured in my writings 💌
Stream of consciousness is my favourite way to journal. I could start writing about my day and end up talking about my favourite music or films. I always go where the pen takes me.
You can journal about your characters from their perspectives. How would they react to what you experience? How would they write about their loved ones?
I use my journal for various reasons. Creative storytelling, pencil sketches, and poetry (some publicly shared, some not). There is a sense of clarity when I journal, especially with my poetry, like the world sees me for who I am: a genuine man who is stuck in life with their dysfunctional family and hopeless romantics at 24 years old.
I started consistently journalling 4 years ago and in the last two months it has become a daily thing. It calms me so much, gives me a space to organise my thoughts, my days, to express my creativity and unfog my brain when needed. That's why I write. I rarely if ever use prompts because I already have sth else in mind to write about but I loved the concept of this video and I might actually use these when I find free time just for fun heheh. Loved this video. Journalling is kind of like praying but to yourself lol
I have been journaling since I was 12, and it is intuitive for me as well, I never use any kind of method. Journaling is my deep breath. Your prompts are really thoughtful. Well done on this entire video, it's a different and inspiring take on how to start journaling. There are so many videos on journaling with all these rules, and yours is a breath of fresh air. I like to keep pictures around my space of women artists who inspire me; my influencers, if you will. And this video gives me that same vibe.
I love that you included Kurt cobain!! I saw a book about his journals, I sadly couldn’t buy it due to lack of money, but I will forever treasure the memory of finding it and looking through the pages
This video felt incredibly nurturing. I have a massive box under my bed filled with all of my journals. The question is, how do we alchemize all of that experience into art?
I recently finished a journal for the first time. It took me four years but most of it was written in a few months. I realized that I was subconsciously writing as if someone would read it which made me dishonest and weary. Once I started writing as though it would never see the light of day, journaling became a good friend of mine. I write about the mundane, the exciting, what I love, and what I am ashamed of (P.S. I love reading everyone's stories in the comments, we are all doing a wonderful job of existing
I love this video! I watched a bunch of videos about journaling, It's seemed so complicated But then I started (2 days ago) And I realised it isn't. I really like how you said intuition is most important. I agree. And how you referenced all these writers and artists, that's really nice! For now my journal is mostly filled with poems about how I feel. I don't know if you can call them poems though. I'm no poet. But I also started writing more freely without worrying about rhymes, or counting the syllables. Feels liberating. I hope I can keep this up. Cheers
an extract from my own journal: "I wasted my entire day rotting away in bed, but I had a nice bath, so I don't think I'm entirely unlovable just yet." I don't know why this line written by a fifteen year old me, the summer after 10th grade, has stuck with me for so long. Perhaps, because it gives me hope, that even when I experience my lowest of lows, I will survive and thrive with more experience, and overcome the seemingly eternal tiredness of my mind. Also, I lied (somewhat). I am fifteen (and 6 months might I add) right now and I wrote the mentioned 'extract' just a few hours ago. I wanted to lie at first in this comment but then I decided to be truthful. I don't know what my purpose even is in writing this but I wanted to write so...
I have kept a Journal for I think 2 about years now. And I've never really liked videos about journaling, because they often feel very strict and make me feel anxious about journaling. I put this on in the background while I was washing my dog, and I'm so glad that I did! The intro made me feel like I'm fine as I am. And the prompts are so calming and inspiring. I really think needed this. Tank you❤
you have such a distinct poetic voice in your videos and your passion for art and understanding the world just shows. I've been journaling since i was 8 more or less and i always keep my journal in my pocket because i make it out of 7 to 8 A4 sized printer paper and cut and staple it together within a matter of seconds and finish one in about a week's time. Though I dont write poems in it so often it provides as a jumping off point for my poems and I cherish it so much because i love scribbling my thoughts in it and trying to make sense of the world and my reaction to it so deeply.
have been feeling a bit isolated and lonely in regards to my journal lately... this has definitely inspired me to look at my relationship with writing differently and pick it back up. thank u, lovely Dakota!
What a lovely, quiet, beautiful and inspiring video! Thank you, Dakota. You’re the final push I needed to get back into journaling every day. I used to (almost religiously) as a young girl, but then my dad found my diary and read it, so I stopped. I am by no means a creative exhibitionist™️ and it broke my trust to have someone read my secret innermost thoughts. But I think it’s high time to turn pen to paper once again!
I started keeping a diary when I was around 10 and its so interesting to look back at my old diaries and see exactly what I was thinking in those moments there's really no other way to be able to look straight into the mind of your past self than this
I used to think I should only write about one subject in a journal, but now I wanna broaden my horizons. Thank you for the tips! I loved this video so much
i love you and your videos and was so happy to see this pop up in my subscription feed, and to watch it. I've kept journals since I was ten, so for a decade now, but i love hearing what others have to say and why and how they journal. it reminds me that i dont have to journal the way I've always done, and it inspires my creativity as a writer to hear your words 💌
I asked my journal a question and answered it years before Harry Potter. It is a good way to get answers. I sometimes turn a journal entry into a letter, a hand written letter to a friend or family. I have been writing in journals for a few decades and now the pages seem unimportant and scattered but I would not be here today many times over if not for them. It is revelatory and therapeutic.
I think this is one of the most beautiful videos I've seen on here in a long time! Created with so much passion and eye for detail and sparking so much inspiration and ideas - thank you, Dakota, for pouring your heart out on this channel ♥
thank you for this video. i feel so inspired now with the prompts + to unravel onto the page instead of wondering if it was not conventional enough - and im sure lots of others feel the same :) also love your video style
I am about to finish my tenth journal. The most interesting thing I have seen in my own journaling is the development of my methods. I used to fill my pages with writing as well as drawings and collages. I would use different colored pens on each page. Now, I like my pages to only be filled with words and all in cursive. I use the same black pen in every journal, even though I go through them like water. It almost pays homage to the development of my thoughts as well. I do less creative writing now than I used to.
I'm so happy that I stumbled across this video! This is exactly what I've been looking for as I'm compiling a list of female writers who also have written about writing. I've been journaling my whole life but in recent years feel like my journals have turned into practical planners and to do lists, and I've lost touch with the creative and poetic language I used to have. Thank you for creating and sharing this beautiful video, and your prompts are thought-provoking and marvelous. I'm looking forward to exploring them! Also, Joan Didion's essay "On Keeping a Notebook" is a really good one!
I just love your Utube channel! You are much younger than me and your content shows that age is just a number. It's timeless. Every soul has lessons to teach us. Thank you so much for your content. You have become one of of my favorites. Keep up the good work 💕👍 PS: Where are your favorite places to write…to create?
thank you for such an incredible video, i am also a writer, i love writing love letters, poetries, proverbs, details.... but recently i was insecure beacause many people say that i look like crazy and super strange and living in my own world etc.... but anyway i dont care anymore... Just thank u, this video was like a sign for me cz i have seen it just spontaneously on my recommendations... love u💌💚
I've half starteded several journals through my chilhood and abandoned them all because I felt I couldent commit to the expected consistency but I always return because i love reading the snapshots of my own thoughts, which feels vain but when so much of life is malleable memory and words on the wind ink on page is as close a translation and record of my internal landscape as anyone can craft.
This one is for the artists who also write: Reverse the creative process by writing an artist statement before creating a painting, drawing, or sculptor. What feelings do you intend to evoke through imagery? What sort of medium will you use? How do you intend to construct the artwork? What inspired you to want to make it (let it be something that interest you the most). Then make the artwork.
I love Anne Frank so much and her book so much and her journey is absolutely so beautiful deep emotional and one of my heroes I cried every time I read it and it made ur realize how precious life is 😢❤😢
My prompt I'd like to add under this beautiful and inspiring video: Go to a place your heart feels drawn to and inhale every impuls with all your senses and emotions. Then describe yourself in the third person, as if you are writing a story about this person, who is you. How do you feel about yourself? What does your fiction-self want to experience?
I want to start back journalling, but I'm a bit apprehensive to. The last time I did, I wrote about a siblings unhealthy coping mechanism and not even a few hours later they came up to me all hot and bothered complaining about how dare I write such a thing about them (and they unintentionally did the exact same thing I wrote about.) I think it ended up having a good effect. We talked it out and they don't do it as often. But it still scarred me that it didn't take more than a couple hours for my privacy to be breached. But I think I'll try again anyhow. The benefits outweigh the stress of combatting ridiculous family members. Thank you for the beautiful video, you've inspired me to write again. I miss it.
I used to journal a lot, but about seven months ago I stopped. After that my stories improved; there are more ideas stirring in my mind (although there had never been a shortage of them before). Having said that, I miss journaling a lot.
The guy who was almost perfect and has so much in common with me told me that we should stop dating, and on the very same night I wrote my first little poem. I felt so weird after I finished writing it, not believing that I actually did write it
As someone who isn't the best with language my journal entries read like a elementary school child tries to tell a story, but that's alright they get better. I mostly journal to quiet down my thoughts which works extremely well. I think I should try to reflect more to try to understand who I am and who I want to become. Also I should be more descriptive instead of only listing up events as they happened throughout the day. Thanks so much for the inspiration especially the letters sound really interesting but also really challenging.
I feel like I have this sort of duty to documentation. i have eyes, and skin and ears and a tongue and hands and a nose and a vestibular system and a stomach and arms swaying as i walk, and I feel like I must document, that documentation is the purpose of my life. this is why i write so much observational poetry. I feel like the world is so full of meaning you could live your whole life never writing about yourself and never run out of things to write about, without ever leaving your city. I think a life lived right will inevitably bear witness to a lot of things. joys and tragedies, small things, large things. i feel like I have a duty to 1, experience, and 2, write it down. photograph it, draw it, etc. I have a sort of weird loose vaguely monist belief about things, that I don't quite have figured out, but I see myself as a sort of sensory organ for the universe. I am the universe, I am how it can know the taste of sugar and the reds of a sunset and the cold of the rain and the highest euphoria and the lowest sadness. unfortunately lots of sadness. but I feel it is my duty to experience things for it and to document it and then to communicate it with others. this is the only reason I can find for living. it is kind of the only thing I have. i have eyes and I must see, skin and I must feel, ears so I must hear, tongue so I must taste, nose so I must smell. I must feel the presence of my body in the world, the way it moves, I must feel the internal processes of my body. I have hands so I must create things, must act, I cannot let myself just be a detached observer. I don't have any choice in the matter, and no matter how hard I try I can't die until I've done the work I need to do. and i feels like a chore but I have to do it anyways. and my tonsils are burning in my throat and my nerves are screaming in my legs and I my joints are creaking and I just ate french toast with maple syrup and I will drink coffee tomorrow and i will do something I am terrified of tomorrow and I will see the movements and the shifting and movings of people and I will see big things happen, and I will shout in the streets and I will whisper at the movies and I will see the clouds, and the aurora and the rain and the stars and I will see trees grow up and buildings come down. and so I must write because I must experience things, and writing is just living a second time, writing is just my desperate attempts to have someone see me. writing (and all art) is the way to show others what you see. that is something only you can do. not a camera, not a computer, not another person. only you can say how you see the world.
just some british context on samuel pepys (PEE-ps) he was like the one guy that we read diaries from in the great fire of london in primary school so yep
My only worthwhile writing (thus far) comes from my journal and it’s funny that my only piece of published writing is on your collective. I took it straight from my journal with no intention for it ever to be read except for maybe by a friend if the topic came up in conversation. I’ve been slacking on my journaling but this is maybe the push I needed to get back into it, especially now since you’ve given us such detailed prompts.
I also think taking a journal prompt and making it the prompt for your collective could be cool. Maybe have people write a journal entry with one of these prompts listed and then use their own writing as inspiration for another piece of art. (ie a short story, a piece of visual art, a poem, etc) Just a thought
i just finished my second journal! what lovely timing. may we write and live forever, lady dakota
i also finished the third one!
i’m just getting started 😭
This reminded me of secret history; to live and live forever.
Every Diarist mentioned and the prompt inspired by them:
Virginian Wolf : Reflect on a recent chaotic or undefinable moment in your life. How can you use writing to organize or make sense of this chaos?
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Anias Nin : Write a regular entry to your diary as though you are certain it will be published and read by thousands of people. Did you shift your voice or bend the truth with eyes of others in mind?
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Maya Angelou : Write passionately and confidently about an injustice that is important to you as though your stance will empower others. How did this experience shape your sense of identity and purpose?
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Samuel Pepys : Go for a walk and record a hyper detailed description of said walk, paying attention to as much as you possibly can, especially to the moments or visuals that are seemingly mundane. Read it back to yourself. Do you feel you took the walk twice?
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Franz Kafka : Write a letter to your father, mother, or somebody who governs or had governed what you do with your life. Tell them how you really feel about their influence. If you could send the this person the letter with zero consequences, would you?
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Anne Frank : Write a letter to someone (or something) you trust. What would you share about your hopes, fears, and dreams for the future?
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Sylvia Plath : Write a recent emotional experiences into poetry. How dose this reliving the experience via a poem compare to a regular prose style journal entry?
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Kurt Cobain : Start a journal entry with the phrase “I remember …” and write about a significant moment from your younger years. How dose revisiting this memory affect you in the present?
Oh thank you! I was about to run back through the video and copy everything down. You're an angel.
@@Huhhuhwhuhuhh Awwwwww ~ stop you're so sweet ૮₍ ´ ꒳ `₎ა
I'm just happy it was of help lol ~
Thank you sooo much ♥️♥️♥️
Thanks!
I lack the self acceptance to embrace the chaos of my own, unfiltered thoughts.
Edit: I'm surprised how far I've gotten in two months. Learning self acceptance is difficult but it's the best I've felt in years. I don't hate myself in the way that I used to. I can let myself be. I'm getting better at doing things just for me. I think a little less about what people things and their opinions don't shape me in the way they used to. I'm by no means perfect but that's ok. Things get better, I see that now
write about that feeling. i get it too, but even your comment is a start, no?
@@peacefultsunami i actually took the plunge today and wrote my first journal entry! mainly just setting some boundaries for myself. this video really helped a lot.
@@Sarm8 thats awesome!! I as well took the plunge. i’m so inspired, by this video and by all of you in the comments- best wishes to you in your journey!
You just gave words to how I feel, thank you.
my first ever journal/diary was when I was in fifth grade (12 or 13). the subject of my entries was my crushes and I remember detailing about a dance I had with a boy, how his finger gripped my waist and how nervous yet exhilarating it was to dance with him in front of a crowd. one day I came home from school, my parents burned my diary, they said I was too young for any of those. more than being upset about it, i was ashamed. i never named what I felt back then but I realize now how dirty and perverted I thought of myself. i stopped writing then and wrote again in highschool.
thats horrible that they wouldnt let a little girl be a little girl, that they went thru that and that they burned it :(( im glad you are writing agin!!
I am relieved to read that you are still writing despite such a humiliating experience. Keep it up!
I've had similar experiences in my younger years. My parents did confiscate my diary, they didn't burn it though, and one of their reasons being I ranted abt their parenting style and stressful home life too much. It did something to my confidence for a while, but not being able to put down thoughts on a piece of papers had felt worse. I'm glad you pick up journaling again! ❤️
I still have trauma from writing in journals because my mom read my journal and used it to shame me 🙃
Now i just carry lifelong guilt and shame for having emotions and feelings.
same, i still feel insecure writing in a physical notebook, scared that my parents will read it again so i continued my pursuit of journaling my life on google doc, but i will forever miss writing in a worn out, self decorated notebook
I love this video. Half of the journaling videos I see are “bullet journaling” and they are all in these crazy formats and if I’m being honest when I’m older I wouldn’t give a single shit about my daily water log in my journal. Plus my brain is not like this, so I started journalling how I really wanted. I normally use to journal not like myself, but then I finally had confidence to write exactly how I feel, I do two pages every night. My journal feels like a window to my brain and now when something bad or sad happens to me a little bit of me is happy I can write it down.
Oh that’s so pretty
YES! This is how you do it! WRITE, no matter what, no matter where, write! After all, a shoebox can be a journal too. I had one in which I stored empty cigarette packs, paper napkins, pieces of toilet paper and the likes. All with some text I'd scribbled on them. I even wrote on fallen tree leaves. Reading through this journal I see not only the words, but the whole situation in which I wrote it. Love your video, love the way you present your thoughts.
I started a journal for the purpose of logging my progress in my exercise routine. 82 days later it has morphed into something else. I now am in the process of establishing my blog and a CZcams channel. writing is so powerful it helps me think clearly
Your choice of outfit doesn't require a disclaimer. You're dressed really comfy as though an embodiment of a journal yourself. Also, I am impressed by your great efforts for this video
journal about the little treats that you gave yourself that brought your mood up! that way you'll have an overview if what makes you happy and what you prioritize, you never know if your older self will remember them
my prompt (as someone who tends to overthink and ruminate solely on the negative, losing sight of the positive in the process) is: write about a recent happy moment, in detail. however mundane or seemingly inconsequential, if it made you smile write it down :)
Wow what a great prompt thanks so much!!
I went back and did your prompt yesterday; it was very relaxing.
I love this reminder that a journal need not be precious. Just write!
Sometimes i forget that i used to journal about anything, and i forget that i can still do it, because our lifestyles just keep us on the go.
Sit down with a journal and write until your hand hurts. When we're awake, our thoughts don't stop, so there is always something to write. Instead of being on the phone, grab a journal. It's just as entertaining but much more rewarding.
i feel the same way! there's also the pressure to make everything aesthetically pleasing that stops me from journaling.
Early Japanese literature has a whole genre on diaries ("Nikki") written mostly by women (the ones written by men were mostly boring and dull).
It might be nice to look into that if anyone's interested.
How can i stop this feeling that people will read my journal and judge me???😫😫😫😫
When you worry that others may read and judge what you write, it blocks you from writing authentically from your own mind and genuine thoughts. Keep your journal with you in a safe space and remember it’s merely a brain dump to help you gain clarity and free up space when you have a noisey mind.
On another note, I’m almost certain my siblings read my journals growing up. Either keep your journal in a lock box, tell the least amount of people possible or mask the cover to look like an uninteresting book. Reading someones journal/diary is an extreme disrespect to their privacy. No one deserves to know all the passing thoughts from anothers mind
keep it in a safe space!!
@@sophiaa444 I meant it mentally. Like I always feel like someone is watching. You know??
@@aidafani5071 oh i understand, that’s hard but I get where you’re coming from. do you think theres anything that could make you feel better about that?? i dont want to say journal abt it since you’re nervous about it haha but if you do think you could do that then writing out your feelings could help you understand why you feel that way
Glad you’re coining creative exhibitionism because WOW. Your obsession with journaling over the past few months has bled into ME and I’m so glad. It’s taught me a lot about writing for me and performance, because I write my journals as if someone else is going to be reading or publishing them in several years. I’m slowly unlearning that, so thank you :)
loved this video! loved that you included kurt cobain and mentioned lyricists, for that kind of writing inspires my own the most! cant wait to try these prompts✨
I don't journal because for many years I felt too much shame and fear. The paradox is that the journals of women in my family who have passed out of this life are all items I cherish. In those journals, I've sometimes sensed the same feelings, the same skepticism about the worth of their writing. To live is to leave traces of ourselves and we should all feel that our marks are worth making. Frankly, it could be that none of us is enough to evaluate the worth of our writing, our art, our journals, so we might as well behave as if it's a given that they're valuable to someone. Especially if that can be our own selves.
The algorithm dropped your channel on my doorstep. I am thrilled to find someone so thoughtful and engaging as you!
I am both a visual artist and a writer. The most transformative thing for me was creating and practicing as though no one would ever see it. I allow myself to be selfish. I am simply relaying my experiences to myself in an effort to process them. My ultimate goal with my creations is to remain as raw as possible. Telling the world to turn their eyes while I create it has made it flow effortlessly.
i loved this video so much, was so beautiful, soft, creative and inspiring. i have kept a diary for almost 10 years (im 19) and i´ve always wrote in it through waves and periods until last year when i started writting more heavenly and frequently on it - not just as a necessity to relief and dream and think but also as a necessity to simply wirte. write words on papel. This year i havent written much and a couple days ago ive "found" my taste for journaling again and never felt so good, i feel reconected and "awaken" again, like a part of me was turned off. i need my diary as i need air. i found this video in such perfect timing, thank you so much.
An interesting prompt I was told in therapy is Write a letter from yourself when you were a little child to your present self. I found it very hard and even pointless in the beginning, but once you start thinking about how the little you would begin the letter, what the first thing they would say is, there's a lot you can discover about your present self.
this video is beautiful and your way with words is so easy on the heart , , there’s such a comforting energy and i adore it , , im so glad i stumbled upon this video as i’ve been in a writing slump for a year or so , , i used to write everyday until events happened that caused me to feel rather burnt out , , i used to write small entries in my notes but they were very brief ( i prefer to be more detailed ) yet this video has come at the perfect time , , thank you for posting this , , it’s inspired me to journal again and not be so structured in my writings 💌
the muse has listened to my prayers, the journaling video has arrived
Stream of consciousness is my favourite way to journal. I could start writing about my day and end up talking about my favourite music or films. I always go where the pen takes me.
You can journal about your characters from their perspectives. How would they react to what you experience? How would they write about their loved ones?
omg love your ball gown!
I use my journal for various reasons. Creative storytelling, pencil sketches, and poetry (some publicly shared, some not). There is a sense of clarity when I journal, especially with my poetry, like the world sees me for who I am: a genuine man who is stuck in life with their dysfunctional family and hopeless romantics at 24 years old.
I started consistently journalling 4 years ago and in the last two months it has become a daily thing. It calms me so much, gives me a space to organise my thoughts, my days, to express my creativity and unfog my brain when needed. That's why I write. I rarely if ever use prompts because I already have sth else in mind to write about but I loved the concept of this video and I might actually use these when I find free time just for fun heheh. Loved this video. Journalling is kind of like praying but to yourself lol
I have been journaling for a long time, but I really enjoy your prompts and I will definitely incorporate them into my personal journal.
I have been journaling since I was 12, and it is intuitive for me as well, I never use any kind of method. Journaling is my deep breath. Your prompts are really thoughtful. Well done on this entire video, it's a different and inspiring take on how to start journaling. There are so many videos on journaling with all these rules, and yours is a breath of fresh air. I like to keep pictures around my space of women artists who inspire me; my influencers, if you will. And this video gives me that same vibe.
I love that you included Kurt cobain!! I saw a book about his journals, I sadly couldn’t buy it due to lack of money, but I will forever treasure the memory of finding it and looking through the pages
This video felt incredibly nurturing. I have a massive box under my bed filled with all of my journals. The question is, how do we alchemize all of that experience into art?
I recently finished a journal for the first time. It took me four years but most of it was written in a few months. I realized that I was subconsciously writing as if someone would read it which made me dishonest and weary. Once I started writing as though it would never see the light of day, journaling became a good friend of mine. I write about the mundane, the exciting, what I love, and what I am ashamed of (P.S. I love reading everyone's stories in the comments, we are all doing a wonderful job of existing
I love this video! I watched a bunch of videos about journaling,
It's seemed so complicated
But then I started (2 days ago)
And I realised it isn't.
I really like how you said intuition is most important. I agree.
And how you referenced all these writers and artists, that's really nice!
For now my journal is mostly filled with poems about how I feel. I don't know if you can call them poems though. I'm no poet. But I also started writing more freely without worrying about rhymes, or counting the syllables. Feels liberating.
I hope I can keep this up.
Cheers
dakota, i've seen you in book tube videos, but this blog? wow. just wow. you are a beautiful human & im glad you are part of this universe
an extract from my own journal:
"I wasted my entire day rotting away in bed, but I had a nice bath, so I don't think I'm entirely unlovable just yet."
I don't know why this line written by a fifteen year old me, the summer after 10th grade, has stuck with me for so long. Perhaps, because it gives me hope, that even when I experience my lowest of lows, I will survive and thrive with more experience, and overcome the seemingly eternal tiredness of my mind.
Also, I lied (somewhat). I am fifteen (and 6 months might I add) right now and I wrote the mentioned 'extract' just a few hours ago. I wanted to lie at first in this comment but then I decided to be truthful. I don't know what my purpose even is in writing this but I wanted to write so...
Dumass. (I mean that in the most lovable, affectionate way possible. Cause I can see myself doing the same. We're both dumasses)
You have such a sweet, kind soul. So much so that it is tangible without physically being in your presence. Thank you for sharing you with us.
I have kept a Journal for I think 2 about years now. And I've never really liked videos about journaling, because they often feel very strict and make me feel anxious about journaling. I put this on in the background while I was washing my dog, and I'm so glad that I did! The intro made me feel like I'm fine as I am. And the prompts are so calming and inspiring. I really think needed this. Tank you❤
this inspired me to even write in my journal 2 lines each time, and it ispired me to read anna frank journal as a half jawish girl my self
you have such a distinct poetic voice in your videos and your passion for art and understanding the world just shows. I've been journaling since i was 8 more or less and i always keep my journal in my pocket because i make it out of 7 to 8 A4 sized printer paper and cut and staple it together within a matter of seconds and finish one in about a week's time. Though I dont write poems in it so often it provides as a jumping off point for my poems and I cherish it so much because i love scribbling my thoughts in it and trying to make sense of the world and my reaction to it so deeply.
have been feeling a bit isolated and lonely in regards to my journal lately... this has definitely inspired me to look at my relationship with writing differently and pick it back up. thank u, lovely Dakota!
What a lovely, quiet, beautiful and inspiring video! Thank you, Dakota. You’re the final push I needed to get back into journaling every day. I used to (almost religiously) as a young girl, but then my dad found my diary and read it, so I stopped. I am by no means a creative exhibitionist™️ and it broke my trust to have someone read my secret innermost thoughts. But I think it’s high time to turn pen to paper once again!
Love when your videos get cinematic. The conversational vlog style is great but the flourishes like the beginning of this are very impressive.
I started keeping a diary when I was around 10 and its so interesting to look back at my old diaries and see exactly what I was thinking in those moments there's really no other way to be able to look straight into the mind of your past self than this
I used to think I should only write about one subject in a journal, but now I wanna broaden my horizons. Thank you for the tips! I loved this video so much
i love you and your videos and was so happy to see this pop up in my subscription feed, and to watch it. I've kept journals since I was ten, so for a decade now, but i love hearing what others have to say and why and how they journal. it reminds me that i dont have to journal the way I've always done, and it inspires my creativity as a writer to hear your words 💌
I asked my journal a question and answered it years before Harry Potter. It is a good way to get answers. I sometimes turn a journal entry into a letter, a hand written letter to a friend or family. I have been writing in journals for a few decades and now the pages seem unimportant and scattered but I would not be here today many times over if not for them. It is revelatory and therapeutic.
The way in which this video was shot, is mind blowing-ly perfect
I think this is one of the most beautiful videos I've seen on here in a long time! Created with so much passion and eye for detail and sparking so much inspiration and ideas - thank you, Dakota, for pouring your heart out on this channel ♥
What if my journal is just filled with my poems?
That is totally my typa thing, it's awesome!!
@@learningblossoms3663 it is!! I haven't written almost any poems this year, but last year I couldn't stop writing them 😂
thank you for this video. i feel so inspired now with the prompts + to unravel onto the page instead of wondering if it was not conventional enough - and im sure lots of others feel the same :) also love your video style
I am about to finish my tenth journal. The most interesting thing I have seen in my own journaling is the development of my methods. I used to fill my pages with writing as well as drawings and collages. I would use different colored pens on each page. Now, I like my pages to only be filled with words and all in cursive. I use the same black pen in every journal, even though I go through them like water. It almost pays homage to the development of my thoughts as well. I do less creative writing now than I used to.
Your sprawling ramble at the beginning was deeply inspiring 💚
Lovely white stockings and gloves, Jassy Classy Style. Lovely to be siting in the Garden with a book sourounded by flowers 🌸
It’s actually pronounced Peeps (Samuel Pepys) 🥰❤️ this video was lovely and very inspirational as always, thank you! 🥰❤️❤️
I'm so happy that I stumbled across this video! This is exactly what I've been looking for as I'm compiling a list of female writers who also have written about writing. I've been journaling my whole life but in recent years feel like my journals have turned into practical planners and to do lists, and I've lost touch with the creative and poetic language I used to have. Thank you for creating and sharing this beautiful video, and your prompts are thought-provoking and marvelous. I'm looking forward to exploring them!
Also, Joan Didion's essay "On Keeping a Notebook" is a really good one!
I just love your Utube channel! You are much younger than me and your content shows that age is just a number. It's timeless. Every soul has lessons to teach us.
Thank you so much for your content. You have become one of of my favorites. Keep up the good work 💕👍
PS: Where are your favorite places to write…to create?
loved that you included kurt
Thank you sooo much for this video! You inspire me incredibly and all these beautiful people. This made me feel so warm n safe, thanks Dakota.
babe wake up lady Dakota just dropped a new videoooo 💗💗💗💗💗
wow, the tarot references at the beginning. beautiful
This is such a lovely video! I love the care and creativity you put into this! 🌹❤
oh, heaven knew how much I needed this video💌
thank you for such an incredible video, i am also a writer, i love writing love letters, poetries, proverbs, details.... but recently i was insecure beacause many people say that i look like crazy and super strange and living in my own world etc.... but anyway i dont care anymore... Just thank u, this video was like a sign for me cz i have seen it just spontaneously on my recommendations... love u💌💚
YAYY!!! I've been wanting to journal more. Thank you for this video.
I've half starteded several journals through my chilhood and abandoned them all because I felt I couldent commit to the expected consistency but I always return because i love reading the snapshots of my own thoughts, which feels vain but when so much of life is malleable memory and words on the wind ink on page is as close a translation and record of my internal landscape as anyone can craft.
only you can make such a poetic video on journaling. i hope to be as well-spoken, soft and knowledgeable as you one day ❤🔥
I absolutely loved this video, pleaseee make a part 2!❤❤❤
I'm so happy I found you here. Journaling is such a big part of my life. Sending love from France!
I NEEDED this video, thank you Dakota
This one is for the artists who also write: Reverse the creative process by writing an artist statement before creating a painting, drawing, or sculptor. What feelings do you intend to evoke through imagery? What sort of medium will you use? How do you intend to construct the artwork? What inspired you to want to make it (let it be something that interest you the most). Then make the artwork.
This was so lovely. Thank you!
I love Anne Frank so much and her book so much and her journey is absolutely so beautiful deep emotional and one of my heroes I cried every time I read it and it made ur realize how precious life is 😢❤😢
I just discovered your channel and now i want to marathon all of your videos. So glad i found you!!
i think i just fell a little bit in love
My prompt I'd like to add under this beautiful and inspiring video: Go to a place your heart feels drawn to and inhale every impuls with all your senses and emotions. Then describe yourself in the third person, as if you are writing a story about this person, who is you. How do you feel about yourself? What does your fiction-self want to experience?
I am sooo excited for this video!!!
I identified most with Franz Kafka and Anas nin. Closest to my own journaling style.
Love love your videos❤
I want to start back journalling, but I'm a bit apprehensive to. The last time I did, I wrote about a siblings unhealthy coping mechanism and not even a few hours later they came up to me all hot and bothered complaining about how dare I write such a thing about them (and they unintentionally did the exact same thing I wrote about.) I think it ended up having a good effect. We talked it out and they don't do it as often. But it still scarred me that it didn't take more than a couple hours for my privacy to be breached. But I think I'll try again anyhow. The benefits outweigh the stress of combatting ridiculous family members. Thank you for the beautiful video, you've inspired me to write again. I miss it.
John Steinbeck has a published work called "Working Days" which was his journal while he was writing "The Grapes of Wrath."
I used to journal a lot, but about seven months ago I stopped. After that my stories improved; there are more ideas stirring in my mind (although there had never been a shortage of them before). Having said that, I miss journaling a lot.
just wanted to say i love your channel sm! always makes me wanna huddle in and appreciate art in literature
The guy who was almost perfect and has so much in common with me told me that we should stop dating, and on the very same night I wrote my first little poem. I felt so weird after I finished writing it, not believing that I actually did write it
lovely video ! skipping to the stationary store also the book store I want to read more from these authors :))
I journal how I would speak to a best friend, and it just happens so that that my best friend is the ether within which feeds from the ether without.
As someone who isn't the best with language my journal entries read like a elementary school child tries to tell a story, but that's alright they get better. I mostly journal to quiet down my thoughts which works extremely well. I think I should try to reflect more to try to understand who I am and who I want to become. Also I should be more descriptive instead of only listing up events as they happened throughout the day. Thanks so much for the inspiration especially the letters sound really interesting but also really challenging.
İ journal because i seem to not be able to recognize myself unless i write myself down, just like i can’t see myself unless i reflect on a mirror.
Wow ! I loved this video so much. ❤❤❤
Your name suits you so well
this is beautifully written
Love you dakota ❤️
I feel like I have this sort of duty to documentation. i have eyes, and skin and ears and a tongue and hands and a nose and a vestibular system and a stomach and arms swaying as i walk, and I feel like I must document, that documentation is the purpose of my life. this is why i write so much observational poetry. I feel like the world is so full of meaning you could live your whole life never writing about yourself and never run out of things to write about, without ever leaving your city.
I think a life lived right will inevitably bear witness to a lot of things. joys and tragedies, small things, large things. i feel like I have a duty to 1, experience, and 2, write it down. photograph it, draw it, etc. I have a sort of weird loose vaguely monist belief about things, that I don't quite have figured out, but I see myself as a sort of sensory organ for the universe. I am the universe, I am how it can know the taste of sugar and the reds of a sunset and the cold of the rain and the highest euphoria and the lowest sadness. unfortunately lots of sadness.
but I feel it is my duty to experience things for it and to document it and then to communicate it with others. this is the only reason I can find for living. it is kind of the only thing I have. i have eyes and I must see, skin and I must feel, ears so I must hear, tongue so I must taste, nose so I must smell. I must feel the presence of my body in the world, the way it moves, I must feel the internal processes of my body. I have hands so I must create things, must act, I cannot let myself just be a detached observer. I don't have any choice in the matter, and no matter how hard I try I can't die until I've done the work I need to do. and i feels like a chore but I have to do it anyways.
and my tonsils are burning in my throat and my nerves are screaming in my legs and I my joints are creaking and I just ate french toast with maple syrup and I will drink coffee tomorrow and i will do something I am terrified of tomorrow and I will see the movements and the shifting and movings of people and I will see big things happen, and I will shout in the streets and I will whisper at the movies and I will see the clouds, and the aurora and the rain and the stars and I will see trees grow up and buildings come down. and so I must write because I must experience things, and writing is just living a second time, writing is just my desperate attempts to have someone see me.
writing (and all art) is the way to show others what you see. that is something only you can do. not a camera, not a computer, not another person. only you can say how you see the world.
Oh how I love this video, so inspiring
just some british context on samuel pepys (PEE-ps) he was like the one guy that we read diaries from in the great fire of london in primary school so yep
i need to learn how to journal sooo bad ty ty ty
LUV U Dakota ❤❤❤
Thank you for this video ❤
beautiful
Love.
My only worthwhile writing (thus far) comes from my journal and it’s funny that my only piece of published writing is on your collective. I took it straight from my journal with no intention for it ever to be read except for maybe by a friend if the topic came up in conversation. I’ve been slacking on my journaling but this is maybe the push I needed to get back into it, especially now since you’ve given us such detailed prompts.
I also think taking a journal prompt and making it the prompt for your collective could be cool. Maybe have people write a journal entry with one of these prompts listed and then use their own writing as inspiration for another piece of art. (ie a short story, a piece of visual art, a poem, etc) Just a thought
Thank you