If your goal is to improve your writing, one thing you must do is write something every day. It doesn’t have to be part of a book or an article or anything for someone else. Writing in a personal journal has many excellent features. It helps the writer to remember important memories, which can slip away if they’re not recorded. Journal entries can be prayers, short stories, or lists of things, which happen each day. There is no end to the list of things written in a journal.

Julia Cameron, in her book, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size, recommends we each start our day by writing three pages of whatever comes to mind to help focus our day.

I like a journal, because I don’t have to worry about grammar, spelling, or the way other people think I should write. I can simply put down my thoughts with total freedom. Sometimes little pieces from my journal become part of a story I’m writing, but not often. Most of the time, my journal is only what is on my heart. The only one who sees my writing and my prayers is God and He doesn’t mark up my pages with a red pen. He reads everything pouring out of me and fulfills my need for His companionship.