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
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Journaling in 10-Minute Chunks: A Daily Journaling Exercise

I recommend journaling in 10-Minute chunks. 

Why? Do 10-Minute chunks of journaling because it keeps you focused. It gives you an easy, attainable, and manageable goal. Also, we can focus for 10 minutes, no matter what is going on. 

~ Start with journaling for a period of time of 10 minutes. Set a timer and write as fast as you can and keep writing--don't stop. If you get stuck, write "I am journaling about..." and see what comes to mind. Keep repeating that, or a journaling prompt, until you know what to write next. Do whatever type of journaling you want to do. For example, do a SOC, do a journaling prompt/exercise, journal about the present or past or future, do a list, take an item from your Future Journaling List or your Memory Mining Lists, etc. 

~ After the 1st period of 10 minutes, do as many as you can until you run out of time and need to do something else.

~ Do 10 minute chunks several times a day.

~ Every week, do a 20-minute, 30-minute, and 1-hour time chunk at least once

Stacy Duplease
Journalkeeper & Author

The Remembering Your Present Journal Keeping Series

Email: storykeeper2121@gmail.com

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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

Bookstore: http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/hisfiction

dba Remembering Your Present, LLC & Storykeeper 2121

(Image Credit: Stacy Duplease. Zack.)