A fictional journal allows writers to describe the feelings and point of view of a character. It serves as a creative exercise where writers can play with words and change events from their own lives. Some benefits of keeping a fictional journal include improving writing skills by writing daily, exploring thoughts, and giving meaning to life by determining dreams and justifying one's perspective.

1. FICTIONAL
JOURNAL
Jo-Ane T
. Sieras

2. What is Journal?
-is a note where we write
down our daily events
and happenings in life. It
is also a collection of
one’s thoughts or
observation written over
time about a particular
topic.

3. What is Fictional
Journal?
Fictional Journal is a record of
sequential events that can be
used to describe the feelings or
events of the character and
his/her point of view towards a
subject or a situation. It also
shows your thoughts on a daily
basis which serves as a creative
exercise. The format of fictional
journal is the same on the format
of non-fictional journal. It still gets
the reader directly into the
character’s head and it provides a
built-in framework for plot

4. Why Do We Need to
Write a Fictional
Journal?
Fictional Journal allows us to
perceive the world in an entirely
different perspective. It serves as a
compilation of things and actions
which exist in our imagination.
Through writing it, we can change the
events in our lives in a way we want it
to be. It also makes us creative. We
can be creative because as writers of
our own fictional journal, we can play
words. We will go beyond the usual
words that we used in our everyday
life as well as the actions and scenes
of the characters. Thus, it specifically
gives us benefits such as follows:

5. Benefits in writing
fictional Journal:
A. Improve Our Writing.A
good way to improve our
writing skill is to write a lot.
Writing fictional journal
provides us the opportunity to
improve because the style of
writing is on daily basis. In
addition, any creative ideas we
record in our journal can be
expanded later.

6. Benefits in writing
fictional Journal:
B. Explore Our Thoughts.
Keeping our journal can help
us record all the thoughts that
we have on daily basis.
C. Give Meaning to Our Life.
Fictional journal can determine
our dreams and aspirations.
Things we write in our journal
justify how we value life and
our perspective about it.