The purpose of these journal writing examples are to make you feel vulnerable and create a conversation with yourself. Each question is meant to challenge you and encourage you to dig deeper.

Keeping a journal doesn't require sharp writing skills either. First, each entry is for you and you alone. Second, you can always include visual elements as part of an entry.

But then I came across John Steinbeck’s writing diary from when he worked on The Grapes of Wrath, which was itself published as a book and highlighted (with copious examples) by Maria Popova ...

Journal apps make it easier to write about your life without the performative aspect of social media. And paying less attention to what everyone else is doing gives you more time to spend on yourself.

We asked Washington writers to share stories, poems, drafts, musings, and other things they’ve been working on during quarantine. Thomas Mallon is writing a new novel—“set forty years in the past, ...