Hello, and we are on technique five, from strategy eight habits. We're moving right along, we're getting very close to the end of the course, we're in our last strategy. And we're in some of the last techniques of our last strategy, which is habits. And we started with words and sentences. And then we worked our way into larger structures like paragraphs and larger chunks of writing pieces. And then we looked at the whole work by going into purpose and presentation.

And now we're looking at habits and attitudes where we look at multiple pieces and look at our entire writing life and have all of those interconnects and overlap and technique five states safe scraps in a journal notebook or day book. Most writers with an active writing life do this. Some of them take it everywhere they go and put multiple things in it a day. Other people will look at it weekly, but it's a very good habit to get into as a writer. It doesn't matter whether you're fiction, nonfiction business, creative writing, you know, you write novels, you blog. It gives you ideas for future reference.

If something pops into your head at three in the morning or you have a dream, you can sit down and write that down. You're like, Oh, I remember in the morning and you wake up in the morning and you can't remember what the heck it was that was in your head. And so having that that book, that day book, that scrapbook or that journal is a great way to help you to write down great ideas. in day to day life, poignant moments occur, epiphany is manifest and strong ideas come a lot of times they just pop up in the most random places. keep a journal notebook or de book with you at all times. It can be as simple as a little scribble pad, it could be this big, but when ideas come, write them down, write them down.

You may not use that idea at all or you may not use it right away, but when you use need it when you need it, it will be there. And some examples of that. If you're writing a piece and you get stuck, and you can't think of a turn of phrase, this may start to get a little type A, but it might even be useful to have different sections in your day book or your journal for different kinds of ideas, or techniques, or insights or dreams that you have. And then you can refer to that section when you get lost or get locked up somewhere. And then you that'll give you some ideas, you might be able to find something from previous discoveries that you can use when you're in the writing process and you get stuck or you get writer's block. When you maybe you're starting a new piece and you have no idea what to write about.

That could be a great opportunity. And a great way to come up with ideas is to go to that day book and just look through it. Here's one example of how to do that. Refer to your day book or journal in a moment of writer's block. It will provide ideas and inspiration ration it might be useful, like I said, to keep morsels and scraps organized or categorized in your own unique system only you know what works for you. Another example is when you become curious, but there isn't enough material to write a full piece.

Don't leave that don't abandon it, it could be something in the works, that becomes full enough to be a story or a poem or an article or a book later on. So don't ignore those ideas, write them down in that day book or in that journal and keep them in one place. That might be a section of your day book or journal. When ideas have percolated and collected enough energy, you will have material for that new piece that you want to work on. And there it is it you know, it's a great way to, you know, come up with ideas for new things. And also to get past writer's block.

It's yet another technique to get past that thing that we all hate, which is writer's block. And so just a quick review of that. technique, technique for sorry, technique five Excuse me. Technique five though safe scraps in a journal notebook or day book and they'll help you in the future.