Forget your blog: 5 reasons to keep a personal log

There is a scene in the movie Weird Science where the main character looks up something in his so-called 'log'. "You keep a diary!?", the other geek asks. "No, of course not! Teenage girls keep a diary, I keep a log". Here's why you should too.

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The book the "Artist's Way at Work" by Mark Bryan, Julia Cameron, and Catherine Allen offers an approach called "morning pages" that is similar to a log but helps to overcome writers block (as well as act as a refinery for written pieces still percolating). Some references:

http://www.artistswayatwork.com/

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0688166350

http://paperartstudio.tripod.com/artistsway/id3.html

although the book encourages you to write them in longhand I found that typing on a laptop in a coffee shop or library or anywhere that was different from where I normally worked (to break association with work space) worked for me.

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