Diary Prompts

BENEFITS OF JOURNALING

  • An outlet for thoughts, memories, opinions and feelings
  • Observe the world around you
  • Increase your self-awareness
  • Develop and grow your mindset
  • Release the pressure, stress and the confusion
  • A little like therapy
  • Improve your writing skills 
  • Creative and Vivid imagination
  • Gain a rich vocabulary
  • Develop empathy
  • Change your mood 
  • Take time out for yourself

Journal writing is a written record of your personal thoughts and feelings about things or people that are important to you. Recording your thoughts in a journal is a good way to remember how you felt about what was happening in your life at a particular time. You can record your dreams, memories, feelings, and experiences. You can ask questions and answer some of them. It is fun to go back later and read what you have written because it shows how you have changed in different areas of your life. A journal can also be an excellent place to look for future writing topics, creative stories, poems, etc. Writing in a journal is an easy and enjoyable way to practice your writing skills without worrying about a writing grade.

Journals are personal, but sometimes it helps to have ideas to get you started. Remember, in a journal, you do not have to stick to one topic. Write about someone or something you like. Write about what you did last weekend or on vacation. Write about what you hope to do this week or on your next vacation. Write about home, school, friends, hobbies, special talents (yours or someone else’s), present and future hopes and fears. Write about what is wrong in your world. If you think about a past event and want to write an opinion about it now, put it in your journal. If you want to give your opinion about a present or future event that could have an impact on your life or the way you see things, put it in your journal. If something bothers you, record it in your journal. If something interests you, record it. If you just want to record something that doesn’t seem important at all, write it in your journal.

To get started in your journal, you need to put the day’s date on the title line of your paper : Month, Day, Year. Skip the next line and begin your entry. You might write one or two sentences, a paragraph, a whole page, or several pages. Except for the journal date, no particular organizational style is required for journal writing. You decide how best to organize and express your thoughts about a topic or an event. You will also need a notebook, a pen, a quiet place, and at least 5-10 minutes of uninterrupted writing time.

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