Journal Writing Prompts Online

Sometimes a certain level of journal boredom can creep into your daily entries. Either life in general is good and you’re content, or in the ho-hum of your life you’ve run out of intriguing events you feel worthy of writing down. There’s not a lot to fill your pages when life is going well and you’re running that treadmill of daily life. Your journal writing can begin to feel stale. You may even lose the urge to sit and write if you feel this way.

Journal writing prompts are a good way to tackle this problem. Questions and quotes get you thinking in different ways about your life. They challenge your long-held views and opinions. Writing in response to prompts can help you make strong statements about what you believe and feel really matters to your life. Journal writing prompts affirm your attitudes, good or bad, strengthen your desire to reach goals and confirm the purposes you’ve accepted in life.

Take a prompt and hold it against your life, much like a mirror, and see what is reflected there. You may be enlightened or terrified of the image you see. Your journal is a perfect place to work out what you want to change or continue with in your life in response to what you learn. Here are some links to some good prompts online:

Try this list of prompts for those days you’re feeling a little unmotivated or just don’t have anything to write about.

Sheila Bender has a page of excellent prompts in her archives. Her website is an interesting journal resource, too.

Journal Sparks hasn’t updated their prompt page in a while. They claim we’re still on week 22, but there’s plenty there and in the archives to get you writing in your journal. Their sister site Creative Writing Prompts has even more prompts for you.

I hope you find these resources useful and spend productive time writing in your journal directly from some of these prompts.