Journal prompts

Here are some journal prompts to help you when you’re finding it hard to get started. They are focused around you and your perspective on things. I’ve added a few extra prompts at the bottom on different subjects.

Journal prompts – all about you

1. What kind of day did you have, and why was it special?
   
2. What’s your favourite colour, city, snack, book, tv programme, or movie, and why?
   
3. What do you like to do for fun? How does it make you feel?
   
4. Where are you happiest? Describe that place.
   
5. What’s something you love to do? Why do you love it?
   
6. Where do you come from? Is this important to you?
   
7. What would you change about yourself or your situation? Can you change it at all?
   
8. What is your relationship like with other members of your family?
   
9. Are your siblings and you alike? If not why? If you don’t have siblings, then you’re friends.
   
10. What are your views on free speech?
    
11. What do you worry about at night? Are they realistic? Is there anything you can do about them?
    
12. What do you believe to be true? If so, what is it? If not, what is your method for making important decisions?
    
13. In what areas in the world are you optimistic, and in what areas are you pessimistic?
    
14. What are your most important objects?
    
15. Who is someone you miss?
    
16. What is something you admire in a friend? Describe it and your feelings towards these.
    
17. What book has influenced you, and how? (perhaps it was a song or movie?)
    
18. What is one thing that people misunderstand about you?
    
19. What’s something you disagree with about the school you went to?
    
20. What’s your favourite season. Describe it in detail.

Journal prompts – other areas of your life.

1. Describe your dream: job, man/woman, holiday.
   
2. How do you envision your life when you’re older?
   
3. Who are the dream guests for a dinner party? What is the one thing you’d like to know about each of them?
   
4. What would your superpower be? How would you use it?
   
5. If you won the lottery, what would you spend the money on?
   
6. What country would you like to visit? How do you imagine your time there?
   
7. Who is your favourite celebrity crush and why?
   
8. What car would you like to drive? (money no object.)

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