Thursday, 5 May 2016

Imaginative Journalling Prompts for Writers and Creative Spirits!

Good morning, bookworms!

Today I thought I would make up a list of journalling prompts for those times when you feel like you have "nothing to write" in your journal. I've been keeping journals my whole life and sometimes I get writer's block, so this helps me. I hope you guys like my ideas and find this useful!


  1. What scares you?
  2. How would you redesign the world?
  3. Dear Past Me...
  4. Dear Future Me...
  5. Places you've enjoyed visiting
  6. People you admire
  7. Favourite songs
  8. Favourite movies
  9. Top 5 Long Term Goals
  10. Dear _______, I never told you...
  11. Dear _______, I wish you knew...
  12. Nobody knows that I...
  13. The most fun I've ever had
  14. The most disappointed you've ever been
  15. Choose a photograph, and write about it
  16. Open an art book, pick out a picture and make up a story about it
  17. Three things you can't live without
  18. Your celebrity crush(es)
  19. What is your favourite outfit?
  20. Five things you want in a relationship
  21. What are your pet peeves?
  22. Your saddest memory
  23. Your greatest accomplishment
  24. What you were like as a child
  25. How do you deal with anger?
  26. What makes you happy?
  27. What is the dominant emotion in your life right now?
  28. My favourite Sunday ritual
  29. Things you always did on the weekends as a child
  30. What is it like to go shopping with your mother?
  31. If you could meet any book character, who would it be?
  32. If you could live anywhere, where would you live?
  33. Who was your best friend in primary school?
  34. Who was your best high school teacher?
  35. How do you procrastinate?
  36. Describe your ideal life
  37. How would you spend a million dollars?
  38. What are your strengths?
  39. What are your weaknesses?
  40. Describe your perfect day
  41. Write a letter to your first crush
  42. What would you do if you weren't afraid?
  43. Take a blank page and colour it in with crayons
  44. Choose one word and fill the page with it
  45. Write a letter to the editor of a magazine
  46. If you were an animal, what would you be?
  47. What would your superpower be if you were a superhero?
  48. Use song lyrics as the beginning to a page
  49. Write about a country you want to visit
  50. Build a perfect fort in your mind, then write about it
  51. If you ruled the world, what would you banish?
  52. What triggers your anger?
  53. What is your life's theme song today?
  54. List your anxieties. Now scribble all over them.
  55. I could never...
  56. I have never...
  57. I will never...
  58. I always...
  59. Sometimes when I'm by myself, I...
  60. Describe your dream date
  61. Write a letter to your future wife/husband
  62. If I had ____, I would be happy
  63. Write a letter to your childhood imaginary friend
  64. What was high school like for you?
  65. What is your life's passion?
  66. What stops you from chasing your goals?
  67. Analyse some song lyrics
  68. When I am old, I will...
  69. When I raise children, I won't...
  70. When I raise children, I will...
  71. Describe the place where you grew up
  72. Have you ever met a famous person?
  73. Who inspires you?
  74. What inspires you?
  75. What DOESN'T motivate you?
  76. Does guilt work on you?
  77. Do you like yourself? Why/why not?
  78. List your talents. Take time to acknowledge them.
  79. Describe yourself from an outsider's perspective.
  80. If you could live in any fictional world, which would you choose?
  81. What is your favourite type of nature? (Rainforest, ocean, desert...)
  82. Tea or coffee?
  83. Write about an adventure you would like to go on
  84. If you could change your name, what would you call yourself?
  85. Write about a time when you were in love
  86. Write wedding vows to yourself
  87. Describe your best friend
  88. Choose a number between 1 and 20, then list that many things that make you happy.
  89. Write a synopsis of your favourite movie
  90. Review the last cafe/coffeeshop you went to
  91. List your ideal partner's qualities
  92. Dream up your own country. Give it a name. What is it like?
  93. Write yourself a letter, apologising for all the times you've been mean to yourself
  94. Write a forgiveness letter
  95. Fill a whole page with nice words
  96. Write about your favourite season. What do you like about it?
  97. Do you remember your dreams? Describe one
  98. Tell someone in your life why you're proud of them (you don't have to show them the list!)
  99. If a genie granted you one wish, what would you wish for?
  100. Write a love letter to your hometown



Thanks so much for reading, I hope you like what I've come up with! Now I'm feeling inspired, so I'm going to hop to it and get some writing done!

Rhi xo

1 comment:

  1. Forgot to tell you about this:
    http://www.brokeandbookish.com/p/top-ten-tuesday-other-features.html
    This is what I (attempt to) do every Tuesday, it usually has a pretty good list of topics and its also a good way to get other people checking out your blog!

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