Journal Prompts

Beginner Journal Prompts:

What makes you hesitant about starting a journal?
Would you consider burning your journal after writing it? Does that make it seem easier to write?
Why do you write or why do you want to write?
Do you feel pressured to write?
Introduce yourself to a stranger in the some kind of writing.
Write for five minutes without stopping...it's exactly what it sounds like
Let a friend take a Polaroid or picture of something random and then write about it.
Go through your morning routine without your phone and record the sounds you hear and make.
If what you're feeling right now was an animal what would it be?
Write a journal entry from the perspective of someone in your life.
Write down your confessions...destroy the paper afterwards if you want.
Doodle whatever you want on a page.
Take something that's significant to your hometown and put it in your journal

Self-discovery Journal Prompts:

If you could change anything about your life what would it be?
Write a list of pet-peeves
Write a list of your favorite thing
Is there anything that you need to change about yourself? What's the first thing that came to mind?
What are you most afraid of? Feel free to do different areas of your life
What can you not live without?
If people knew this about me they would...
Make a collage of something that relates to you
If you could be anywhere where would it be?
Take a quote or quotes and write about what they mean to you
I could never live without...


Current Times:

Do you avoid politics or feel yourself engulfed by them?
What is it like to be a woman or man in today's society?
Has anything actually changed in history?
What do you want the future generations to know about this time period?
Do you feel that you're in the minority or the majority?
Take a newspaper clipping or article and talk about it.
What will the textbooks not include?
What do you think will be gone in twenty years?
Do you feel like you're an old soul or do you fit in?
What does this quote mean to you?

What does the past generation get wrong about your generation? Will you do the same for the next generation?
What defines a generation?
Is history moving in the right direction?


Letters: 

Write a letter to your future children
Write a letter to your older self to remind yourself what it's like to be a teenager.
Write a letter to your older and younger self...how do they differ?
Write a letter for the future generations of your family.
Write a letter to your childhood home.
Write a letter to your childhood friend and bully
Write a letter to the last person you would write a letter to.
Write a letter to your mental illness.
Write a letter to your favorite book and its author.
Write a letter to your journal

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