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• Alphapoems/alphalists: 26-item lists or poems in which each line or item begins with a different letter, from A through Z
• Captured moments: vignettes of life, vividly described
• Captions: pictures to be titled or explained in writing
• Catharsis: writing from within the midst of extreme emotion
• Character sketches: brief evocative descriptions of people
• Clippings: pictures or news stories saved to expand upon later
• Clustering: spatial "ball and stick" diagrams, similar to mind maps
• Daily topics: selecting a theme to address each day, often as an essay
• Dialogue: real, heard or imagined conversations between two or more characters
• Flashback
• Gratitude Journal: keeping track of things you're thankful for
• Guided imagery: meditation on a peaceful place, daydreaming on paper
• Lists: "dump and spill" lists exhausting details or variations on a theme
• Object writing: providing as much detail about a given object or subject as possible
• Perspectives: looking at something from another point of view, person or object
• Ping-pong lists: paired lists to contrast two views, going back and forth as in table tennis
• Prompts: prepared quotes or aphorisms designed to encourage response
• Reflection: stand back to analyze one's own actions and reactions
• Rehearsal: practicing for difficult conversations or speeches
• Sexual memories/complaints/experiences: reflecting on the unexplored or forbidden
• Springboards: "prompts" which inspire writing, as a springboard helps launch a gymnast
• Stream of consciousness: free-flowing narrative similar to James Joyce's style in Ulysses
• Steppingstones: Intensive Journal term for key points in a life journey
• Summarize: write a brief summary of a notebook, project or period in one's life
• Tables: organized grids to compare people or items on a point-by-point basis
• Time capsule: a brief collection of items designed to capture details of a particular moment for the future
• Time stretching: writing as if from many years in the future or in the past
• Timed writing: writing as fast as possible for a specified time, similar to a track sprint
• Unsent letters: writing letters to people which are never intended to be sent or read by them
• Visuals: striking images
• Visualization: extremely detailed imagining of an event, with attention to all senses and specifics

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References

Most of the original items on this list are from Tristine Rainer's 1978 book The New Diary.

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See also

• diary
• notetaking