- Identity statements and reflections
- Observations—things I notice in the world
- Questions—things I wonder about
- Thinking about what events might mean
- Response to things I read
- Response to things I see
- Drawings, sketches
- Entries as diagrams or charts
- Clippings from websites, magazines, news
- Photos I want to write about
- Images that stick in my mind
- Lists
- Experiments with long and short sentences
- Kernels of stories or play scenes—notes toward ideas
- Ideas for fan fiction about my favorite shows, books, or movies
- Kernels of blog posts, microblog tweets, or status updates
- Stories my family tells
- Memories
- Last night’s dreams
- Entries that are really chains of ideas about different things
- Entries in my second or third language
- Descriptions of places
- Descriptions of objects
- Descriptions of people
- Experiments with different languages or voices
- Experiments with multimodal design
- Free association
- Revisions of prior thinking
- Returns to previous topics
- Lists of future topics to write about
- Information
- Fragments of manifesto
- Quotes
- Overheard conversations
- Imagined conversations
- Dialogue with parts of myself
- Things a particular person has said to me
- Interviews
- Caught poetry and found poetry
- Decision making
- Plans and goals
- Celebrating victories
- Reflections and lessons about writing processes
What Kinds of Entries Are There? Just a Start…
- Identity statements and reflections
- Observations—things I notice in the world
- Questions—things I wonder about
- Thinking about what events might mean
- Response to things I read
- Response to things I see
- Drawings, sketches
- Entries as diagrams or charts
- Clippings from websites, magazines, news
- Photos I want to write about
- Images that stick in my mind
- Lists
- Experiments with long and short sentences
- Kernels of stories or play scenes—notes toward ideas
- Ideas for fan fiction about my favorite shows, books, or movies
- Kernels of blog posts, microblog tweets, or status updates
- Stories my family tells
- Memories
- Last night’s dreams
- Entries that are really chains of ideas about different things
- Entries in my second or third language
- Descriptions of places
- Descriptions of objects
- Descriptions of people
- Experiments with different languages or voices
- Experiments with multimodal design
- Free association
- Revisions of prior thinking
- Returns to previous topics
- Lists of future topics to write about
- Information
- Fragments of manifesto
- Quotes
- Overheard conversations
- Imagined conversations
- Dialogue with parts of myself
- Things a particular person has said to me
- Interviews
- Caught poetry and found poetry
- Decision making
- Plans and goals
- Celebrating victories
- Reflections about writing processes