𝙱𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎 𝙼𝚊𝚢𝚎𝚛'𝚜 𝙻𝚒𝚜𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝙹𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝙸𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚜
- dreams
- food
- finances
- writing ideas
- love
- ideas for architects
- city design ideas
- beautiful and/or ugly sights
- a history of one's own writing life, written daily
- reading/music/art, etc. encountered each day
- rooms
- elaborations on weather
- people one sees-description
- subway, bus, car or other trips (e.g., the same bus trip written about
every day)
- pleasures and/or pain
- life's everyday machinery: phones, stoves, computers, etc.
- answering machine messages
- round or rectangular things, other shapes
- color
- light
- daily changes, e.g., a journal of one's desk, table, etc.
- the body and its parts
- clocks/time-keeping
- tenant-landlord situations
- telephone calls (taped?)
- skies
- dangers
- mail
- sounds
- coincidences & connections
- times of solitude
- Write once a day in minute detail about one thing
- Write every day at the same time, e.g. lunch poems, waking ideas, etc.
- Write minimally: one line or sentence per day
- Create a collaborative journal: musical notation and poetry; two writers
alternating days; two writing about the same subject each day, etc.
- Instead of using a book, write on paper and put it up on the wall (public
journal).