E) Weekly Prompts

In order to promote daily journaling and reflective writing, “A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts” gives you seven new journaling and life-writing prompts based on a specific topic each week.

A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: A Sense of Place

March 12, 2012

When I read a memoir or novel, I always want to know where I am. I want to feel secure and grounded in a place. Yet, because of my own life experiences, I grapple with defining sense of place for myself. Not only did I move frequently as a child (5 or 6 times before [...]

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A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: Creative Clustering

March 5, 2012

Life is circular in nature. The natural world is formed by curves and shapes, clustered together and joined by lines and graceful arches. Like nature, our creative minds are not linear, but filled with image and idea clusters joined by the lines and arches of emotional and sensory associations. That is why I’ve been been [...]

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A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: The Characters in Your Life

February 20, 2012

A week ago, I attended a surprise birthday for my little brother (I won’t say how old he is) and saw a number of family members I see too infrequently. It’s my own fault, of course. I’m busy, we’re all busy. At least that’s what I tell myself. Perhaps it’s just the age-old story of [...]

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A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: The Early Years

February 13, 2012

Last week’s journal writing prompts explored our first memories. This week, we move up to the next period of our lives—what I call “the early years.” The early years begin at roughly kindergarten and end at the beginning of middle school. For me, it was from age four to ten. Physically and intellectually the early [...]

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A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: First Memories

February 6, 2012

What’s the first thing you remember? Do you wonder, Why do I remember that event, out of all the possible events in my early life? In my first memory, I am in a strange bedroom with sleek, blonde furniture instead of the familiar, warm cherry bedroom set my parents own. I am standing on a [...]

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A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: Dreaming

January 30, 2012

Why do we dream? What are the reasons for all the images and emotions that fill our sleeping—and sometimes waking—minds? The truth is that in spite of years of research and centuries of fascination with our dreams, no one really knows. We know that everyone dreams, and that when we dream our eyes move rapidly [...]

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A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: Uncertainty

January 17, 2012

They say the only constant in life is change. I believe that to be true. And if there is anything certain about change, it’s uncertainty. Just when you think things are moving along according to plan, Blam! something changes. Jobs, relationships, homes, and people come and go. Even when we look forward to a particular [...]

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