The past section starts with a quote You can't look at something without changing it you can't look at yourself without changing. The journal is divided into three parts the past, the present, and the future. I am not embarrassed by her, but I’m ready to leave her behind.īurn After Writing is a self-reflection journal that was first published in 2015. I just skimmed all my answers over again and now I really do understand the title. They made me a better version of myself subconsciously which I was not expecting at all from a $7 Amazon journal. I couldn’t remember exactly everything I wrote, but the prompts stuck with me. I’ve thought about the book often since I finished it.

I hid the book as soon as I was finished unsure if it was because I was scared someone would find it or because of the shock and slight shame of the honesty in my answers. I thought it would serve for me like a time capsule I’d finish it in a day and then later on I could see even the deepest crevices of my mind when I eventually dug it up somewhere and reread what I wrote. It took my longer than expected to finish this book. You were instructed to be brutally honest, and after skipping multiple pages that I didn’t want to answer, I eventually went back and let it all out. Alone in my room, I still found myself looking behind my shoulders to make sure no one could see what I was writing. So the fact that I wasn’t expecting a self help factor consequently got me to finally finish one. I’ve started reading some of those but never finished one. What I wasn’t expecting was that in a very indirect way, this is a self help book, too. The prompts made it easier for me to know what to write. Along comes this book, with PROMPTS: and my sense of self efficacy exponentially increased. I forced myself for many years to make an effort but I just never could. I hate it, but I was struggling for a long time, and every single person in my life (even strangers on the internet) highly recommended it.

Burn after writing boom