I also had a hard time ever keeping a journal until I sat down one day and started working through The Artist's Way [1], which my partner had on her shelf. Ther

I also had a hard time ever keeping a journal until I sat down one day and started working through The Artist's Way [1], which my partner had on her shelf. There are parts of it that don't really work for me, maybe a little too self-help-y, but the main practice of what the author calls "morning pages" ended up getting me going. It's very similar to what the article's author ended up hitting upon -- just sit and write out the internal monologue. Let it go freely and don't worry about it making sense or having direction. Don't think about it too much and don't be precious about it. If there's a thing that comes up and you want to work it out, that's fine, start unpacking it. If it's just "man I really feel tired today" and other things that feel like nonsense, that's fine too. Personally, I went from never keeping a journal to having a daily journaling practice for maybe 5 years after following The Artist's Way for the 12 weeks of prompts it gives you. Now I'm only doing it a few times a week, but that's because I'm working on other things that the journaling brought me to. [1] https://www.theartistswaybook.com/ https://www.theartistswaybook.com/