Maintaining a journal for yourself could be a great method to dedicatedly improvise on your writing skills. So, how does this helps? Well, doing this would keep you involved in actively writing on regular basis. That in turn gets you in to writing habit. It is as simple the more you tend to write, the more you tend you improve on writing. The best thing you could do is to keep a journal of your own personal life that can truly help if you are fictional writer. It can help you in improving your character in the fictional story you write. Try to explore the people in your real like, know what are their motives, why do they perform thing that they like? These kinds of things would help your development of realistic character in fictional episode.

I would recommend your journal to be shaped up in several things. Do not just try to maintain a personal dairy, though it is useful. Also, include your personal thoughts, real life good and bad, poetry and even fictional writing. The idea of maintaining a journal is to perk up your writing through constantly writing daily.