7 Books on Creative Journals and Journaling

Raw Art Journaling

In a raw-art journal, you don’t need to know how to draw; you don’t need to know how to write well. You don’t need worry about messing up techniques you’ve never attempted before inside your raw-art journal. You just need to be you because raw art is you and it thrives on creative play, on experimentation and even on making mistakes.

 

Inner Journaling Through Art Journaling:  Learning to See Your Life as a Work of Art

Inner Journeying Through Art-Journaling introduces a holistic journaling process that combines art, art therapy, design theory and spiritual direction in order to attain personal balance, awareness of one’s own inner processes, resolution of internal conflicts and enhanced wellness.

 

Beyond Bullets:  Creative Journaling Ideas to Customize your Personal Productivity System

Going beyond basic tools, this book offers tips, tricks and creative ways to transform your notebook into a treasured life companion.

 

The Way In:  Journal Writing For Self-Discovery

his beautiful book is filled with ideas for a number of different types of journals–from free-form to list-holding, gratitude to birding–plus a wide variety of stimulating, easy-to-follow topics and writing exercises to get you started. The Way In holds all you need to open the door to creative self-expression.

 

Life’s Companion:  Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest
In this classic book you will discover the intimate journey of personal and spiritual development that is possible through the practice of journal writing. In Life’s Companion, acclaimed author Christina Baldwin offers readers guidance and inspiration to this powerful way of expanding our inner horizons and opening our minds and spirits to a deeper relationship with the world and the people around us.

 

The Writer’s Journal:  40 Contemporary Writers and Their Journal

Forty award-winning writers reveal the elements of the creative writing process through excerpts from their private journals, illuminating how they record what they observe and how their thoughts and observations end up in their work.

 

How to Make A Journal of Your Life

When nomad artist and free spirit Dan Price began jotting down his musings in the form of whimsical drawings and inspired prose, he hardly could have imagined that his self-published journal-zine, the MOONLIGHT CHRONICLES, would earn him a cult following across the country. Now in its twentieth edition, the MOONLIGHT CHRONICLES has brought Dan’s creed of “truth, beauty, and really big sabbaticals from the convention of life” to thousands across the countryWith such a following, Dan figured it was time to collect his offbeat observations into book form in hopes of inspiring other would-be journal writers to take pen, camera, and brush in hand. As Dan is fond of noting “Seems there’s tons of empty journal books, but not too many on how to fill ’em up!” In HOW TO MAKE A JOURNAL, Dan answers the call, teaching readers how to tap into those pent-up creative juices and collect their life experiences on paper.