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The past couple of years has been difficult for everyone. Historical, life-changing events like the pandemic teach us vital lessons and points of improvement for both ourselves and for future generations.

If you’re the type who likes to journal, you know the importance of having personal records of such historic times. In fact, The New York Times previously called on its readers to start COVID diaries in 2020.

It takes more than simply writing your experiences to make a difference, though. To truly make an impact with your work, you should consider transforming it into a journal book. Here’s why.

What is a journal book?

Journals are generally made for yourself or for your own consumption. These informal writings can cover anything, from your daily life and your travels to your reading adventures and even your self-healing journeys. On the other hand, journal books are published versions of journals that can make one’s personal insights ready for friends, family, and strangers alike to read and enjoy. Some popular examples include The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love — and, of course, Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl.

Why should you make one?

Journaling alone is a kind of organized documentation that can help relieve stress by removing some uncertainties from your train of thought. Meanwhile, actually publishing your journal can go beyond boosting your mental health. Journaling opens up new prospects for your writing career by honing your writing skills, which are valued in many industries. Authors or writers thus have the opportunity to do everything from writing books or screenplays to dabbling in marketing and trying their hand at research. Publishing a journal book further gives you the chance to inform, inspire, and engage readers.

How can you get started?

It’s relatively easy to master the habit of journaling. However, journal books need to be in a more engaging and readable format. This is where our daily journal tool comes in. To make your content more eye-catching, it allows you to insert images into your text. And whenever you need a copy, your entries are securely stored and easy to compile. You can even transform it into a bookstore-quality publication with professional printing and bookbinding services. This way, you save costs usually spent along the traditional publishing route — and you can simply and conveniently share your work with others.


Journaling and crafting journal books are both rewarding processes not just for yourself, but for others who may read your work. Hopefully, this quick read inspires you to help yourself — and the world — be better. 

Written for bookemon.com by Nadia Mallory

Self-Published Authors Can Now Make Their Books Talk

Bookemon.com, the free printable book creator, now offers enhanced digital versions of their authors’ creations, which can include audio component for extra reader enjoyment.

As part of Bookemon’s publishing process, an ebook in PDF format is automatically generated to supplement print copies. Ebooks are ideal for readers who want to read on their laptops, tablets or mobile phones. Even better, new innovation now means each ebook will be able to carry URLs for audio or video, accessed on the page via QR code. Readers only have to scan the QR code, like they do for other types of purchases in their lives, to hear audio or watch video components.

For writers creating and selling their books through Bookemon, this exciting addition will be a double bonus. Not only will they be able to provide readers with a handy ebook copy, but they can also offer them the many benefits of audio that make their works unique. Audio in ebooks can be tailored to whatever the author wishes to share with readers:

• Story narration or audiobook option
• Background music
• Messages, wishes and blessings

We see this as a fantastic development for both authors and book buyers. With readers more on the go than ever before, the ebook innovation lets them take their favorite books along wherever they travel. And the audio and video elements bring their books to life. Authors can create a special atmosphere with music, include demos and personalize their works. Sharing among family and friends is easy and quick, without the time delays or extra costs usually associated with print production and delivery.

Talking books aren’t just for busy people when they’re away from home. They’re perfect for children learning to read, auditory learners, bedtime relaxation, listening during exercise or chores, and people whose first language is not the same as the book’s.

To make ebooks easier for buyers to find, Bookemon will be displaying them on a dedicated webpage on the Bookemon.com website. Readers will be able to see them all in one place, and promoting books will be simpler for authors. Plans are in the works to make special showcased books a feature for Bookemon members. All authors can sell their ebooks with no upfront costs, which is a huge boon to break-out writers. They will have greatly increased visibility, which is key for authors seeking to grow their readership and bring their voices to the public. 

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Teaching good writing skills is not as simple as it may sound. Though there are some basic structural components that educators typically focus on, everyone knows that good writing involves something more.

Tapping into student creativity is a vital part of unleashing that hidden potential. But how, as a teacher, do you do that? There are no lesson plans to tap creativity, right? Well, maybe there are.

According to research, the most effective methods to improve student writing are fairly simple to do, but many teachers are not using them.

There are three tips found to improve student writing. Allowing students to type their story is one of them.

The Study

Steve Graham, a professor of education at Arizona State University, monitors the numerous research studies conducted to evaluate the best methods to teaching writing. He recently studied the results of 250 separate writing studies to compile an overall synopsis of best practices for teachers.

“We have confirmation of things we know that work, but are not applied in the classroom,” said Graham.

3 Tips for Teaching Kids to Write Well:

1) Practice, practice, practice: Like playing a sport or anything else, the more one practices the greater their skills become. This applies to writing too. Research from five different studies, which examined exceptional literacy skills in students, discovered that great teachers ask their students to write frequently. In nine experiments conducted with students, adding 15 more minutes of writing time per day in grades two through eight produced better writing. Seventy-eight percent of studies testing the impact of extra writing found that students’ writing quality improved. Other bonuses were that more writing time improved reading skills and other academic performance as a whole. Studies show that kids who learn how to write their own stories well, also develop methods to better organize their thoughts, and even communicate better.

2) Type it out: Though many educators are adamant that writing by hand improves comprehension, 83% of the studies focused on word processing concluded that student writing quality improved when typing on a computer rather than writing by hand. The idea is that the easier it is for students to edit their sentences, the more likely they are to do so – improving sentence structure, word choice, and clarity. The study results were most clear when it came to middle school students.

3) Focus less on grammar, more on writing more: Teaching grammar often doesn’t translate to quality writing. Six studies of children grades three to seven concluded that students who had been taught traditional grammar scored lower than those who did not. Graham believes the reason for this may be that, for younger students, grammar lessons are often separate from writing. But largely, the lessons seemed to get in the way of writing quality. What did work, in three different studies is teaching kids how to combine two simple sentences into a single complex sentence.

The more students write, the better their skills. Add at least 15 more minutes to their writing time each day.

What Can You Do Right Now?

The takeaway here is that writing should be encouraged, made to be creative and fun, and done much more frequently in the classroom. Add at least 15 minutes to each day of classroom activity and you will see results down the road. Make it a fun project, like publishing their first book at easy to use, free sites like Bookemon.com. There you will find resources and you can create your own educator account to Try it out (for educator-related articles) for free!