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!
- What scares you?
- How would you redesign the world?
- Dear Past Me...
- Dear Future Me...
- Places you've enjoyed visiting
- People you admire
- Favourite songs
- Favourite movies
- Top 5 Long Term Goals
- Dear _______, I never told you...
- Dear _______, I wish you knew...
- Nobody knows that I...
- The most fun I've ever had
- The most disappointed you've ever been
- Choose a photograph, and write about it
- Open an art book, pick out a picture and make up a story about it
- Three things you can't live without
- Your celebrity crush(es)
- What is your favourite outfit?
- Five things you want in a relationship
- What are your pet peeves?
- Your saddest memory
- Your greatest accomplishment
- What you were like as a child
- How do you deal with anger?
- What makes you happy?
- What is the dominant emotion in your life right now?
- My favourite Sunday ritual
- Things you always did on the weekends as a child
- What is it like to go shopping with your mother?
- If you could meet any book character, who would it be?
- If you could live anywhere, where would you live?
- Who was your best friend in primary school?
- Who was your best high school teacher?
- How do you procrastinate?
- Describe your ideal life
- How would you spend a million dollars?
- What are your strengths?
- What are your weaknesses?
- Describe your perfect day
- Write a letter to your first crush
- What would you do if you weren't afraid?
- Take a blank page and colour it in with crayons
- Choose one word and fill the page with it
- Write a letter to the editor of a magazine
- If you were an animal, what would you be?
- What would your superpower be if you were a superhero?
- Use song lyrics as the beginning to a page
- Write about a country you want to visit
- Build a perfect fort in your mind, then write about it
- If you ruled the world, what would you banish?
- What triggers your anger?
- What is your life's theme song today?
- List your anxieties. Now scribble all over them.
- I could never...
- I have never...
- I will never...
- I always...
- Sometimes when I'm by myself, I...
- Describe your dream date
- Write a letter to your future wife/husband
- If I had ____, I would be happy
- Write a letter to your childhood imaginary friend
- What was high school like for you?
- What is your life's passion?
- What stops you from chasing your goals?
- Analyse some song lyrics
- When I am old, I will...
- When I raise children, I won't...
- When I raise children, I will...
- Describe the place where you grew up
- Have you ever met a famous person?
- Who inspires you?
- What inspires you?
- What DOESN'T motivate you?
- Does guilt work on you?
- Do you like yourself? Why/why not?
- List your talents. Take time to acknowledge them.
- Describe yourself from an outsider's perspective.
- If you could live in any fictional world, which would you choose?
- What is your favourite type of nature? (Rainforest, ocean, desert...)
- Tea or coffee?
- Write about an adventure you would like to go on
- If you could change your name, what would you call yourself?
- Write about a time when you were in love
- Write wedding vows to yourself
- Describe your best friend
- Choose a number between 1 and 20, then list that many things that make you happy.
- Write a synopsis of your favourite movie
- Review the last cafe/coffeeshop you went to
- List your ideal partner's qualities
- Dream up your own country. Give it a name. What is it like?
- Write yourself a letter, apologising for all the times you've been mean to yourself
- Write a forgiveness letter
- Fill a whole page with nice words
- Write about your favourite season. What do you like about it?
- Do you remember your dreams? Describe one
- Tell someone in your life why you're proud of them (you don't have to show them the list!)
- If a genie granted you one wish, what would you wish for?
- 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
Forgot to tell you about this:
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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!