Chapter 2 - Dedications

You might already know who to dedicate your journal to. It is  strongly encouraged that you do this in pencil in case you need to make  any changes later.

Dedications tend to be short, very short.  However, it has been known  that some people have an enormous amount of dedications to write  because they feel so grateful to those people for helping shape their  life for the better.

Here we look into ourselves in the moment. Maybe we pause and leave  that until later or maybe we draft it in pencil until we are sure.

This is the most detailed of the two methods. Like with the  Acknowledgements, spend time with selecting all those people who your  wish to dedicate your OSJ to.

It is a very special event to have a book dedicated after an  inspiration and it is with that in mind, we should consider who would be  appreciative of this attention and who would benefit. It is a gift from  you to them and a notorious means of elevating someone in the esteem to  all who know about your dedications.

Again, it is limitless, and many people pour out their respects to  many people here and if that in your considerations is the way for you  to go – so you should.

Empirical Dedications tend to be sentimental, sensitive and  conscientious texts which have depth and specific meaning. They are more  musical than they are poetic. They capture the essence of relations and  relay that to emotion into the reader. In the writer they instil a  sense of solidity and self esteem that ensures they maintain standards  or ethics once taught, because they chose to admire that person and was  touched by their input into their lives.

 This is a very meaningful dedication to singular persons or a few  people. It has been known that dedications have been written  posthumously to deceased inspirations and heroes who have left such an  outstanding change that authors have felt that they would like to leave  this special place just for them.

A great thing to do is if you are writing a posthumous dedication is  to take the OSJ to the place they were familiar with and write it there.

You can use more than one, giving plenty of space to each one and  laying it out beautifully. Again the onus, is on respect of your  inspirations.

Whichever way you go with this, you can expand on it later when you  so desire to. There is no rush to get this done and only when you are  sure that you are ready to make your mark then put that pen to paper, as  it is not editable.

The next page is blank so you can trial run a few names or  commentaries. Once you have got that feeling right, you will know more  instinctively who to add.

Practice first...