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The article presents information on journal writing and its effect on writer's life. Journal writing results into cognitive and moral development. The author discusses the value that each writer finds in the process of keeping a journal. The journal writing is given a variety of names including writing from the pen, freewriting and strong flowing stream. This writing comes directly from the heart or the gut, and is not concerned with social acceptability. The journal writing that comes from the heart of the writer is not filtered or censored. During writing, a writer gives voice to her emotion, and presence to her action. Journal writing plays an important role in the development process of young girls. The difference between the women who wrote individually, and the women who wrote as a group, was the writing pattern. It also indicates that when a woman expands her journal writing practices beyond the wholly emotional, thus incorporating more sophisticated thinking into the writing process, she is still guided by the ritual of adolescent writing.