JOURNALING ARCHETYPES and books to inspire everyone

Hello Readers, Journal-Keepers, and Art-Makers! Here's an UPDATED DESCRIPTION based on initial performance of this video! Today I am sharing an outstanding booklist that I compiled based on feedback from my last few videos. They all reflect a journaling life, or approach in some capacity, and I, after sorting through thousands of your comments on my channel, decided to group these books into categories of my own imagining. I am sure if you have read this far, you will no doubt have a point of view on these categories, and on the books that I chose to include. Wonderful! I’ll continue to add books across all categories and I might even add a category if I feel it necessary to do so… I feel very comfortable and not at all arrogant in calling this list OUTSTANDING because truthfully, most of it has come from the hive mind of all of you genuine journaling enthusiasts, so I can take no credit aside from compiling the list and organizing it with some pretty (well, pretty unsophisticated) graphics. I have emphasized a few of my favorites just to keep the video fresh. Let’s jump into the meat of the matter. Here are the journal keeping archetypes and the corresponding books. Enjoy! And let me know if you pick up some of these, or what you’d add or drop from the list. The Memory Keeper Books about journaling for memory, grief, ordinary life, and preservation. Just Kids — Patti Smith Speak, Memory — Vladimir Nabokov The Year of Magical Thinking — Joan Didion Hollywood — Eve Babitz The Inner Explorer Books about journaling for introspection, crisis, creativity, solitude, and emotional survival. A Writer’s Diary — Virginia Woolf Between Two Kingdoms — Suleika Jaouad The Book of Alchemy — Suleika Jaouad Journal of a Solitude — May Sarton Women Who Run With the Wolves — Clarissa Pinkola Estés The Outer Explorer Books about journaling for travel, discovery, exploration, nature, wandering, and adventure. Into the Wild — Jon Krakauer The Lost City of Z — David Grann Nowhere for Very Long — Brianna Madia A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains — Isabella Bird The Invention of Nature — Alexander von Humboldt Referenced explorers/figures: Ernest Shackleton Charles Darwin John James Audubon The Observer Books about about journaling for observation, sketchbooks, field notes, art journaling, and nature study. The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling — John Muir Laws Walden — Henry David Thoreau An Illustrated Journey — Danny Gregory Referenced artists/journal figures: Frida Kahlo Peter Beard The Thinker Books about journaling for knowledge systems, productivity, note-taking, organization, and intellectual work. The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper — Roland Allen How to Take Smart Notes — Sönke Ahrens The Bullet Journal Method — Ryder Carroll The Private Pirate Books focused on privacy, secrecy, inner worlds, and diaries as protected space. The Diary of a Young Girl — Anne Frank My Dark Places — James Ellroy The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ — Sue Townsend Meditations — Marcus Aurelius The Diarist Books explicitly structured around diaries, letters, or daily records. The Berlin Diaries, 1940–1945 — Marie Vassiltchikov The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn — Robin Maxwell The Color Purple — Alice Walker A Tale for the Time Being — Ruth Ozeki On a personal note: my archetype has shifted over time. This past few years with my parents dying, I have shifted strongly toward the Memory Keeper, but all of my life I most identified as an Outer Explorer. And for those who asked: we can absolutely be a combination of all seven! But I find these categories interesting for unlocking some focus and inspiration so I may use them in the future for prompts during my live streams, and even for future videos and letters here. Let me know what you think! Finally, I do want to say that there is no one way to keep a journal, and even my categories can be merged or shifted based on what you need for your practice! Just as there is no one way to be human! Thanks, as always, Amanda ***Key Chapters Opening 0:00 Archetype One 1:51 Archetype Two 3:25 Archetype Three 4:53 Archetype Four 7:08 Archetype Five 9:49 Archetype Six 10:53 Archetype Seven 13:52 Live stream info for Monday May 18th 16:49 Other Videos in this Series: The first video:    • I kept a journal for 42 years and this is ...   Here's a link to the full playlist:    • Keeping a Written Journal