Put Your Journal In The Spotlight

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Share your journal pages with the world!

Sometimes the pages we add to our journals are intensely personal and private, meant to be hidden away from prying eyes and read by no-one but ourselves.

At other times it's the exact opposite. With the evidence of creative genius simply bursting from the page there is the urge to share our work with friends, family and the unsuspecting public.

When these moments strike it can often be hard to find a group of like minded people to share and discuss your masterpieces with. The web makes this much easier with many great websites and communities existing specifically for this purpose.

This lens lists a number of such websites and communities. Join one of these communities and you can easily share your best written, painted, collaged, stamped, sketched, cartooned or decorated journal pages with the world right from your keyboard.

Happy journal sharing!

Because of the innate personal nature of a journal it can be much easier to share it with the world via mediums such as the web than share with the people who are close to you.

Flickr Journal Sharing

There are two great ways to show your journal off on Flickr, the photo sharing site. The first, and simplest, is to upload your photos and tag them with the relevant terms. Tags like diary, journal, journaling.

The Flickr group Journals and Letters is for scans of journal and diary pages, old letters, and scrapbooks. There's plenty of inspiration to be found here.

Journal Junk is another great group, this one dedicated to art journals and visual journaling. Lots of colour and wonder here! There's also a Journal Junk blog.

Art Journal is for sharing pages, tips, and ideas for/from your art journals. A great mix of colour, collage, sketch and almost any other art material
you can think of.

Embodiment is the Flickr group for members of the Embodiment Livejournal community. See below for further details on this community.

Shared Journal Pages On Flickr

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Although public, sharing your journal pages online still has some feeling of anonymity, thus solving the problem of the need to keep private conflicting with the desire to make public.

Livejournal Journal Sharing Communities

There are many great communities on Livejournal that encourage members to share images of their journal pages. The only catch is that you need to be a member of Livejournal and start your own blog.

One such community is Embodiment. The idea behind this community is that participants write in their paper based journal every day and then every so often create a post with images of their work. Read more about the requirements of the community.