The New Diary: How to Use a Journal for Self-Guidance and Expanded Creativity - Softcover

Rainer, Tristine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874771501 ISBN 13: 9780874771503

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 1979

Synopsis

The New Diary is about a completely modern concept of journal writing. It has little to do with the rigid daily calendar diary you may have kept as a child or the factual travelogue you wrote to recall the Grand Canyon. Instead, it is a tool for tapping the full power of your inner resources.

The New Diary is as much for those who already keep a journal as it is for those who have never kept one. It does not tell you the "right" way to keep a diary; rather, it offers numerous possibilities for using the diary to achieve your own purposes. It is a place for you to clarify goals, visualize the future, and focus your engergies; a means of freeing your intuition and imagination; a workbook for exploring your dreams, your past, and your present life.

It is for everyone seeking concrete methods for dealing with personal problems. It is for women and men interested in achieving self-reliance and inner liberation, for artists and writers seeking new techniques for overcoming blocks to creativity.

About this title

About the Author:

Tristine Rainer is the director of the Center for Autobiographic Studies in Pasadena, California. She teaches autobiographic writing at the University of California Los Angeles and at the University of Southern California.

Synopsis:

Diary keeping is presented as a form of therapy leading to selfunderstanding, self-acceptance, new insights into personal problems, creative inspiration, and inner liberation and harmony.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0874771501
• ISBN 13: 9780874771503
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320