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Article: No rules: Just let loose and write.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- March 11, 2002
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The beauty of keeping a journal is that there are no rules. You don't have to write complete sentences in a leather-bound book. You don't have to write every day. You don't have to be profound. You don't have to do any of the other things that may have kept your thoughts silent in the past.
"One thing I wanted to do was to explode the notion of what a journal is," says Alexandra Johnson, author of ``Leaving a Trace: The Art of Transforming Life Into Stories'' (Little, Brown; $13.95 paperback). "A journal can be scraps of paper we keep in a shoebox, joint e-mail put into binders, a computer disc. Or it could be those beautiful handmade Italian notebooks I'm too ...