Daily Paper Prompt #27: Slow Journaling
Mon, August 27, 2012 at 12:47PM 
5x8" watercolor moleskine journals, top in pitt pen, bottom in two different J. Herbin inks with rapidograph pen
The prompt is to do some seriously slow journaling. Start by drawing wavy lines on your paper. Make the waves irregular, not the same each time. Some go up down up, some down up down etc. Don't make it too easy to journal. After the wavy lines, write your words by stretching the letters to meet the top and bottom of the waves. Go slowly to ensure your words are legible. Keep the lines of the letters stretched. At the end of each "line" you have the option of stopping at a syllable and putting a hyphen, no hypen, ending on a full word... or my favorite - just keep going. No syllabic breaks, no hyphens! Break the word wherever it breaks.
The reason the journaling is so darned slow is that it takes awhile to form each letter, each word. It is quite meditative, calming. So the prompt is to do one page of slow journaling before the end of August. Consider slow journaling with a purpose. Try to describe your situation or surroundings in infinite detail. Use descriptive words. Or try to solve a dilemma.
More....
- More info about Slow Journaling
- Less of Comfortable Shoes Studio created a video about Slow Journaling
- If you like Slow Journaling, you might be interested in One Sentence Journaling {Liz Massey of Creative Liberty interviewed Quinn McDonald about one sentence journaling a few years ago, good stuff}. Quinn blogs at Quinn Creative.
- Check out the {free} Art Journaling 101
Find ALL of the prompts at this link: Daily Paper Prompts
Reader Comments (3)
Love this! What a great idea--slow down, think about what you will write, make it meaningful. Yes, a great tip! Can't wait to try it.
Been having fun with the last three days' worth of DPPs this evening - fantastic way to relax.
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Just finished this one. I wrote out the words that I planned for the page a few days ago, then slow journaled on the page today. I think I rush too much to slow journal regularly, but it was fun to give it a try.