A New Personal Journaling Focus (SOC Journaling) and a Journaling Exercise or Prompt

Please forgive me for being so silent on this blog. We are in the middle of helping my dad with a kitchen renovation project, which has meant some long days. However, when I am able, I've been focusing on a new personal journaling focus. I am doing at least a 30 day focus on SOC Journaling.

SOC is short for, Stream of Consciousness Journaling, why change is writing anything that comes to mind, when it comes to mind, without filtering it.

There is a reason why things pop into our minds and there is a reason as to when. If you get it all capture on the page, and keep reviewing the material, and keep doing SOCs from that material, you will answer those questions and start to see patterns.

With this new SOC Journaling focus, it means I did 152 pages of journaling in seven days (before the kitchen reno). It's 152 pages and over the last two days, I did 10 pages. I will be able to keep reviewing this material doing another SOC from what I wrote. I cannot wait to see what develops.

Already, there have been some very special Journaling Gems that I cannot wait to write more about in time.

A JOURNALING EXERCISE OR PROMPT

So now, why don't you join me for the next thirty days and do much the same?

Blessings,
--Stacy Duplease
Email:
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LISTS TO JOURNALING ENTRIES JOURNALING EXERCISE (FROM: FUTURE JOURNALING AND MEMORIES TO MINE LISTS)

Jot down lists, sentences, paragraphs, snapshots--and anything and everything that comes to mind that you want to explore throughout your day every day.

After all, this is where you get the material to mine your memories. It can also be called your Future Journaling Lists.

Jot down memories, thoughts, questions, ideas, dreams, goals, experiences, challenges, happy times, questions, challenges, lessons learned, people, places, things/objects, etc. Get it all down on the page in a form of a list or in paragraphs.. 

Later, you will go back to them and write more about them--as you are led. 

Make sure to mark these as Memories to Mine Lists or as Future Journaling Lists.

Then, every couple days (and at the very least once a week), go through these lists and do a longer journal entry on at least three items from the Memories to Mine or Your Future Journaling Lists. SEE THE MINING YOUR MEMORIES WITH LISTS JOURNALING EXERCISE here: 

http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com/2012/11/mining-your-memories-with-lists.html

Do the previous journaling exercise--again--once every couple days (ideally) to once a week (at the least). 

~ Stacy Duplease

(Image Credit: Stacy Duplease 2012.)

SOC Journaling (Stream of Consciousness): Journaling Exercise

INTRO

If you were to ask me what type of journaling I do most, I would say I do the SOC the most. It's Stream of Conscious Journaling. I think 90% or more of my journaling is this. 

SOC Journaling is writing whatever comes to mind, without censoring or correcting it. It's putting whatever I think onto the page. Sometimes, I use a journaling prompt and/or journaling exericse, but how I respond, is through the SOC. 

I try to do a DOC for at least 10 minutes at a time.

I do a separate SOC for every memorable thing I list in my journal each day. Sometimes  I do this at the end of the day, sometimes at the end of the week and/or month, whenever I want to journal more about something, and sometimes when I get stuck and don't know what else to journal about. I do a SOC at the end of every JRT (Journaling Review Template) as well. 

HOW TO DO A SOC JOURNALING EXERCISE:

1. Write as fast as you can, however long you can, and don't stop until either the timer goes off, you get interrupted, or you have nothing more to say. 

2. When finished, underline or star 3 of the most important points you wrote.

3. Write those 3 points you marked in #2 at the very end of your SOC. This is your reference point of stuff you want to write more about later. 

4. Take one of the points listed in 2 and 3 and write more about it at this time--through doing a 5-10 minute SOC (or longer) at this time. 

(Image Credit: Stacy Duplease. Zack.)

SOC Journaling (Stream of Consciousness): Journaling Exercise

INTRO

If you were to ask me what type of journaling I do most, I would say I do the SOC the most. It's Stream of Conscious Journaling. I think 90% or more of my journaling is this. 

SOC Journaling is writing whatever comes to mind, without censoring or correcting it. It's putting whatever I think onto the page. Sometimes, I use a journaling prompt and/or journaling exericse, but how I respond, is through the SOC. 

I try to do a DOC for at least 10 minutes at a time.

I do a separate SOC for every memorable thing I list in my journal each day. Sometimes  I do this at the end of the day, sometimes at the end of the week and/or month, whenever I want to journal more about something, and sometimes when I get stuck and don't know what else to journal about. I do a SOC at the end of every JRT (Journaling Review Template) as well. 

HOW TO DO A SOC JOURNALING EXERCISE:

1. Write as fast as you can, however long you can, and don't stop until either the timer goes off, you get interrupted, or you have nothing more to say. 

2. When finished, underline or star 3 of the most important points you wrote.

3. Write those 3 points you marked in #2 at the very end of your SOC. This is your reference point of stuff you want to write more about later. 

4. Take one of the points listed in 2 and 3 and write more about it at this time--through doing a 5-10 minute SOC (or longer) at this time. 

Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper Author & Sci-Fi Writer

The Story of John Arundell and Roanoke (A Sci-Fi Time Travel Novel)

& the Remembering Your Present Journal Keeping Series

Email: storykeeper2121@gmail.com

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(Image Credit: Stacy Duplease. Zack.)