Way In, The

by Jacobs, Rita D.

• ISBN13: 9781584790655
• ISBN10: 1584790652
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(4)
PART ONE the journal-writing tradition	13	(30)
The Journal Writer as Gossip	27	(2)
Journals in Fiction	29	(2)
The Journal as Witness to Daily Life	31	(6)
The Journal in Times of Crisis	37	(3)
Finding the Way In	40	(3)
PART TWO keeping your own journal	43	(46)
Journal or Diary---What's in a Name?	45	(1)
The Difference Between a Journal and a Memoir	46	(4)
Beginning the Process	50	(12)
Kinds of Journals	62	(27)
PART THREE writing to find the way in	89	(64)
Killing the Internal Editor by Freewriting	91	(6)
Waking Dreams	97	(1)
Gossiping With Your Journal	98	(1)
Questions as Jumping-Off Places	99	(2)
Making Lists	101	(11)
Encounters With the Self	112	(8)
Elaborating Memories	120	(8)
Getting Unstuck: Changing Your Point of View	128	(2)
Encounters With Others	130	(4)
Character Studies	134	(1)
Writing in Another's Voice	135	(2)
Using Drawings in Journals	137	(1)
Encounters With the Future	138	(2)
Encounters With the Creative Imagination	140	(7)
Mining Your Journals for Memoir Material	147	(6)
Recommended Reading	153	(2)
Index	155