The Way In

For anyone who has ever wanted to keep a journal but felt intimidated by the prospect, or for anyone who has started a journal in the past, only to become stalled in the process, The Way In provides a wealth of inspirational techniques for getting started and staying with it.

Rita Jacobs has been teaching the techniques of journal writing to a wide-ranging audience for a number of years. It is her philosophy that keeping a journal is a rewarding—even exhilarating—experience. As she points out, there are as many different types of journals and ways of writing in journals as there are people who keep them. The urge to write can come from anywhere: the need to sort out what seems to be an overwhelming number of tasks, the desire to capture a past or current insight, the impulse to record an event, or the wish to create something just for oneself. Key to Jacobs's positive approach is her advice that—whatever the reason for keeping a journal—there is no way to fail, because there are no rules, only rewards.

Author Biography: Rita D. Jacobs, Ph.D., is a journalist and college professor who, for the past ten years, has been conducting workshops and classes on journal writing.