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作       者:O'Shea, Samara

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出版时间:2009-10-01

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Keeping a journal is easy. Keeping a life-altering, soul-enlightening journal, however, is not. At its best, journaling can be among the most transformative of experiences, but you can only get there by learning how to express yourself fully and openly. Enter Samara O'Shea. O'Shea charmed readers with her elegant and witty For the Love of Letters. Now, in Note to Self, she's back to guide us through the fun, effective, and revelatory process of journaling. Along the way, selections from O'Shea's own journals demonstrate what a journal should be: a tool to access inner strengths, uncover unknown passions, face uncertain realities, and get to the center of self. To help create an effective journal, O'Shea provides multiple suggestions and exercises, including: Write in a stream of consciousness: Forget everything you ever learned about writing and just write. Let it all out: the good, bad, mad, angry, boring, and ugly. Ask yourself questions: What do I want to change about myselfWhat would I never change about myselfCopy quotes: Other people's words can help you figure out where you are in life, or where you'd like to be. It takes time: Don't lose faith if you don't imme?diately feel better after writing in your journal. Think of each entry as part of a collection that will eventually reveal its meaning to you. O'Shea's own journal entries reveal alternately moving, edgy, and hilarious stories from throughout her life, as she hits the party scene in New York, poses naked as an aspiring model, stands by as her boyfriend discovers an infidelity by (you guessed it) reading her journal, and more. There are also fascinating journal entries of notorious diarists, such as John Wilkes Booth, Ana?s Nin, and Sylvia Plath.A tribute to the healing and reflective power of the written word, Note to Self demonstrates that sometimes being completely honest with yourself is the most dangerous and rewarding pursuit of all.
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Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1

Express Yourself, Don’t Repress Yourself

The Diary Versus Journal Dilemma

Red Light/Green Light Journals

Anne Frank (1929–1945) on Writing the First Few Entries in Your New Diary

Chapter 2

Express Yourself with Other People’s Words

“I Love You, Too”?

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) on Falling in Love in the Summer Rain

Chapter 3

Express Yourself in an Unsent Letter

The Blind Date that Broke the Camel’s Back

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) on Breaking His Heart and Your Own on a Late-Summer Night

Chapter 4

Express Yourself with Questions and Concerns

On the Universe

Joyce Carol Oates (B. 1938) on Contemplating Your Place in the Universe

Chapter 5

Express Yourself in a Stream of Consciousness

Sense of Another’s Self

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) on Pondering Your Place in This Strange Thing Called Life

Chapter 6

Express Your Subconscious Self

Picture Yourself in a Boat on a River

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) on Using Your Dreams to Define Insanity

Chapter 7

Express Yourself with a Specialty Journal

A Day in the Life of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) on a Day in the Life of a Seventeenth-Century Englishman

Chapter 8

Express Yourself Online

On Being Blogged About

Thomas Paine (1737–1809) on Being an Effective Pamphleteer

Chapter 9

How to Make a Joke Out of Your Girlfriend’s Cheating on You

Express Yourself Before the Crime is Committed

The Dangers of Forgiving Too Soon

John Wilkes Booth (1838–1865) on How to Journal After You Just Killed the President

Chapter 10

Express Yourself with Goals and Lists

Alternate Ambition

On Being Naked in Front of Strangers

Sins of the Mother

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) on Giving Birth to Your First Book

Chapter 11

Express Yourself Explicitly

The Violin Concerto; or, Lessons in Taking a Lover

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) on Sex Both Good and Bad

Endnotes

Acknowledgments

Sources

About the Author

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

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