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More prompts than you'll ever be able to write about
Whether you're into journal writing, personal blog writing, family history writing or creative writing there will come a day when you find yourself staring at a blank page stumped by the dreaded writers block.
When this happens with my journal writing I find one of the most useful ways to get the words flowing again is to use some journal writing prompts.
I have created this lens to bring together some of my favourite journal writing prompt resources. I hope that you will find them as valuable as I have.
Table of Contents
A list of sections contained in this lens
- Journal Writing Prompt Resources
- Journal Writing Prompts on Amazon
- Some Quick Journaling Prompts
- More Journal Writing Prompt Resources
- Journals on CafePress
- Journal Jar Projects
- Some More Quick Journaling Prompts
- General Journaling Books on Amazon
- Creative Journal Prompt Resources
- Journals on Amazon
- Amazon Wishlist Stuff!
- Flickr Journaling Photos
- Featured Lenses
- Personal Journal
- Other Great Journaling and Writing Stuff on CafePress
Journal Writing Prompt Resources
- Questions to make you think, conversations starters, mind games
- A great collection of some really thought provoking questions and prompts here.
- Journal Sparks Journaling Prompts
- Heaps of prompts (301 to be exact) - just run your mouse across the colourful stars.
- Daydreaming on Paper - Random Inspiration
- A random journal prompt, just hit the Inspire Me button.
- Journal Writing Pages - Inspirational Journaling Prompts
- A great collection of Journaling Prompts. Includes I Am ... prompts, quotes, summer writing prompts and templates of daily, weekly and monthly prompts. There's lots more on the site - go check it out!
- Sunday Scribblings
- A new writing prompt / challenge each week. If you're writing on a blog you can leave a comment and get a link posted back to your post.
- Live Your Creative Vision - Journal Prompts
- A short collection of prompts, but some are very thought provoking and great to sink your teeth into. It's all quality over quantity here.
- Teachers.net - 180 Journaling Topics
- These great journaling prompts are all quotes.
- Mount Nittany Middle School - Mrs. Mauersberg, 8th English - Journal Prompts
- Aimed at getting the older school kids writing, but suitable for any journaler.
- Connection With Nature - Nature Journal
- How to keep a nature journal, with a whole section on nature journal prompts.
- Journal Prompts at Paperbased.net
- There is a growing list of journal writing prompts at my webpage, Paperbased.net.
Journal Writing Prompts on Amazon
The Complete Book of Questions: 1001 Conversation Starters for Any Occasion
Amazon Price: $10.18 (as of 07/06/2009) 
List Your Self: Listmaking as the Way to Self-Discovery
Amazon Price: (as of 07/06/2009)
More List Your Self: Listmaking as the Way to Personal Discovery
Amazon Price: $11.21 (as of 07/06/2009)
The Book of Questions
Amazon Price: $6.95 (as of 07/06/2009)
The Pocket Muse
Amazon Price: $10.39 (as of 07/06/2009)
Some Quick Journaling Prompts
Prompts About Home
- Where were you living for this period of time?
- Did this place feel like home to you?
- Were you settled or did you feel the need to move somewhere new?
- What was your neighbourhood like? Describe some of the sights, sounds and smells you experienced when stepping out your front door.
- Were you living in your hometown? If not, how far were you from your hometown?
- What kind of dwelling were you living in? Describe the building and surrounds.
- Did you share this place with others or were you on your own?
More Journal Writing Prompt Resources
- Toasted Cheese - Writing Prompt Calendar
- A calendar chock full of writing and journaling ideas. Toasted Cheese was voted one of the 101 Best Websites for Writers in 2002, 2005, 2006 & 2007.
- Weekly Journal Exercises
- A Topica list you can subscribe to, or just visit on the web. A new journal exercise is posted each week. Created by the About Creative Journals website.
- Booking Through Thursday
- Tonnes of prompts based around books and reading. If you're anything like me with books, you'll love this site.
- 100 Prompts - Prompt Tables
- Actually aimed at fanfic writers, these prompts are just as suitable for use in your journaling. There's actually around 330 single word prompts on this page.
- 600 Seconds
- This is a LiveJournal community where users write on a given topic for 600 seconds (10 minutes) each day. Many of the topics given are great for paper journaling as well. The 600 second time limit is up to you!
- Prompt Library
- This prompt library has a years worth of journaling prompts, plus extra sections entitled War, Intense, Teen, Mother-to-be and User Submitted. The Intense section would be great for anyone wanting to journal about a heavier subject matter.
- CanTeach - Writing Prompts / Journal Topics
- Another great list of journal writing topics, suitable for any age.
- Inspired To Journal
- This is a great site with many different journal writing prompt resources. As well as a Daily Prompt groun on Yahoo! for you to join, there are Photo prompts and Journal Jar prompts for Adults, Young Adults and Children.
Journals on CafePress
la lecon difficile (The Difficult Lesson) Journal
Price: 10.50
Whose Fault Was it?
Price: 13.49
Query Journal
Price: 11.99
Top Hat Journal II
Price: 11.49
Beach Journal
Price: 11.99
Journal Jar Projects
- How to Make a Journal Jar
- Another article on how to make a journal jar. Includes a list of "About Me" type questions.
- All About Me Journaling Prompts
- A Journal Jar project and over 460 different prompts to choose from.
- Pioneer Thinking - How to Make a Journal Jar
- Details on how to make a Journal Jar and a long list of prompts to use.
- Creativity For Life - How to make a Journal Jar
- 104 journal jar prompts to help you write a history of your life.
- Journal Jar Instructions
- Instructions for making a journal jar with a label and a heap of prompts to print and fill it with.
Some More Quick Journaling Prompts
Prompts About Relationships
- Did you share this period of your life with a significant other?
- Did you make any new friends?
- Did you reconnect with any old friends?
- Was there anyone you met during this time who had a major impact on your life?
- Were there any major upheavals in your relationships with others?
- Did anyone bring you to tears?
- Did someone make you feel angry?
- Did you miss the prescence of someone?
- Were there any shared moments of pure happiness?
- Did you feel loved?
General Journaling Books on Amazon
The New Diary
Amazon Price: $11.53 (as of 07/06/2009)
How to Make a Journal of Your Life
Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 07/06/2009)
Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest
Amazon Price: $11.56 (as of 07/06/2009)
The Decorated Journal: Creating Beautifully Expressive Journal Pages
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 07/06/2009)
The Decorated Page: Journals, Scrapbooks & Albums Made Simply Beautiful
Amazon Price: $12.21 (as of 07/06/2009)
Creative Journal Prompt Resources
- Luciac.com - Creative Journal Exercises and Activities
- Many different creative exercise here under such categories as Finding Yourself, Healing the Body/Mind and Dream Work.
- Wreck This Journal
- Remove the constraints of being neat and perfect and just let the creativity flow! Love this site. Check out the Instructions section/post for some great prompts to get you going.
Journals on Amazon
Moleskine Large Notebook Ruled
Amazon Price: $16.93 (as of 07/06/2009)
Tiffany Magnolias: Handstitched, Lined (Handstitched Tiffany Stained Glass)
Amazon Price: (as of 07/06/2009)
Blank Book Autumn Shadow
Amazon Price: (as of 07/06/2009)
All Weather Travel Journal By Rite in the Rain
Amazon Price: $15.45 (as of 07/06/2009)
Iota Bullseye Legacy Journal (Pack of 2)
Amazon Price: (as of 07/06/2009)
Amazon Wishlist Stuff!
Wreck This Journal
Amazon Price: $9.97 (as of 07/06/2009)
The Pocket Muse Endless Inspiration: New Ideas for Writing (No. 2)
Amazon Price: $13.59 (as of 07/06/2009)
Listography Journal: Your Life in Lists
Amazon Price: $11.53 (as of 07/06/2009)
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Personal Journal
For other uses of the term diary', see Diary (disambiguation).
A diary is a record (originally in written book format) with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. Diaries undertaken for institutional purposes play a role in many aspects of human civilization, including government records (e.g., Hansard), business ledgers and military records. Schools or parents may teach or require children to keep diaries in order to encourage the expression of feelings and to promote thought.
Generally the term is today employed for personal diaries, in which the writer may detail more personal information and normally intended to remain private or to have a limited circulation amongst friends or relatives. The word "journal" may be sometimes used for "diary," but generally one writes daily in a diary, whereas journal-writing can be less frequent.
Whilst a diary may provide information for a memoir, autobiography or biography, it is generally written not with the intention of being published as it stands, but for the author's own use. In recent years however there is internal evidence in some diaries (e.g., those of Alan Clark, Tony Benn or Simon Gray) that they are written with eventual publication in mind, with the intention of self-vindication (pre- or posthumous) or simply for profit.
Diaries are highly varied, from business notations, to listings of weather and daily personal events, to inner explorations of the human psyche, to expressions of one's deepest self to records of thoughts and ideas.
By extension the term diary is also used to mean a printed publication of a written diary; and may also refer to other terms of journal including electronic formats (e.g., blogs).
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