365 Journal Writing Ideas: A year of daily journal writing prompts, questions & actions to fill your journal with memories, self-reflection, creativity & direction.

I love this book! I love to keep a journal but after a couple weeks I usually get bored with it and quit. This book is full of fun activities to keep you engaged. It isn't dated so you can write about something fun, memorable or funny that happened that day or you can use a prompt from the book. There are weekly challenges which I can't wait to do. Photography challenges which I love. It's just fun. And it gets you out of your box. Sometimes it may be write a short story and you get to pick a plot. A lot of them are "tell about a time when..." which is awesome! When it's over, I plan to start at the beginning and do it all over again!

I bought this book because for the past two years, I've been keeping a journal. It was something I forced myself to do after I read the Happiness Project, and the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, and a few dozen articles about the benefits of journaling. I originally started journaling about my daily events/activities, and after a month or so moved on to the meatier stuff: problems, feelings (I wasn't aware I even had those?), soul-searching, dream recording, and problem-solving. Much has changed since I first started keeping a journal: I passed the Bar exam, and found a job as a criminal defense attorney. Now I use my journal to plan out motions and jot down snippets about cases to one day use in the amazing novel I'm going to write about my crazy life.But in the meantime, I often appreciate prompts. And when I saw this book, with its awesome cover and great blurb, I knew I had to get it. I don't really get books about journal-writing - I always figured, everything I needed to write in my journal was already between my ears anyway.But I'm glad I bought this. It's a great little book filled with prompts. Some are repetitive, so that's not cool, but there are a ton of great prompts, so I found myself not minding the occasional repetition. I love pulling this up in my Kindle app on my iPad, getting out my journal and my Pilot G-2 pen (best pen ever) and just settling in for a good, solid, uninterrupted hour of journal writing.Very, very glad I bought this. There are excellent prompts in the form of questions and inspirational quotations and even those mix-and-match things where you're prompted to write a story. (How cute!) Also, there are "action steps." For example, the book tells you to do something nice anonymously for a friend, and then report back. And that aspect of it is what sets this book apart from other journal writing books, in my opinion.If you're on the fence, take the plunge. Get this book. I'm optimistic that you'll enjoy it.

This book is good for getting ideas on how to journal and what to journal about. Unfortunately, this book was poorly proofread. Using 'colour' and 'color' in the same paragraph, and awkward sentence structure betrays one of two things: the author is not a native English speaker and just used an English sounding name, or offering the book for free didn't allow for paying a proper editor. If you can get past that, however, this book is full of good starting points for journal entries.

I'm still working my way through this one, but so far I really like it. Some of the prompts are a little weird to me, for writing. I'd think they would be more suited toward an audience trying to write creatively every day. But, for the most part, the prompts are fun to complete. I didn't know what to do as far as journaling every day, so this was a really nice place to start. About 16 prompts in I've been able to come up with my own ideas and branched out from there, but I still reference back to this book when I hit a road block. I'd definitely recommend this to beginning journalers who don't know where to start.

Life often seems to pass us by so quickly these days; A journal records the different events of our lives, and calls to mind things that invoked different emotions in us, be they positive or negative. At the time something is actually happening, you never think about the fact that you will probably forget it in future. Looking over a journal of events and memories that happen over a course of years will give you so many enjoyable "that's right!! I remember that.." moments. Really, it's like reading a novel of your own life. Not to mention the fact that it comes in handy merely for the fact that you are able to check the exact time a certain event occurred, for future reference.Being aware of all the things above, I thought it was high time that I started keeping a journal, and so I picked this up for some inspiration and - wow! There is a huge wealth of information here, tons and tons of ideas and inspiration for writing a journal. This author is amazingly creative and has come up with a huge variety of ideas for journal musings. For example, the second page of your journal should detail nearly 50 positive aspects of your life that you should let flourish and grow, ie "Over the next 365 days, I give myself permission to love, I give myself permission to grow, I give myself permission to shine and I give myself permission to explore" - to name just a few. This will give you amazing ideas for filling your journal with "memories, self-reflection, creativity and direction" (as it says on the cover). Sums it up perfectly!!Included are 365 prompts to write about in your journal, one for every day of the year. These are things like: "tell me about an adventure you would love to have", "make a list of all the things you would do or buy if you won the lottery jackpot", "if you could relive one memory of your life over again, which would you choose and why", "in your journal, write a letter to yourself 10 years in the future", "what would you do if you knew you could not fail?", "when do you feel most alive?" and "I am grateful for my family because.." - to name just a handful of the 365. Very thought-provoking and incredibly meaningful and valuable food-for-thought for your future consideration and reflection.There is an introduction and a chapter "how to use this book", followed by a bunch of other chapters such as "which journal size or style" and "why make the time?", before proceeding to the 365 day/52 week journal writing prompt ideas. There are also 52 weekly actions, such as "week 8: go somewhere different, somewhere you have never been", "week 35: host a 3 course meal by candlelight", "week 37: call someone for a catch-up. Report back to journal" and "week 50: plant a tree. Report back to journal with a photo".It makes you realize that journal writing doesn't have to be just a recording of events - it's a way to inspire and motivate yourself everyday, to try something new, to do something different, meaningful and special in your life every week, in order to live a fuller, happier, more adventurous and more enriched life. It will also remind you of and reinforce the positive aspects of life. This is where its true value lies, in addition to being a very useful future reference, of course.I am so inspired by this, I intend to start a journal using these ideas immediately!! I highly recommend this for anyone wanting to start a fascinating, liberating, exciting and enlightening personal journey of journal writing for "memories, reflection, creativity and direction"!!!

I wasn't expecting much from this to be honest, but I've had a thorough look through my Kindle copy, and i have to say it looks a lot of fun. There is plenty here. I particularly liked the tables for creative writing prompts, where you select numbers at random from 1-6 (the author recommends rolling dice, but I used a deck of cards), and then read the relevant creative writing idea of that number. This is great stimulation for the imagination. The weekly "tasks" are also interesting, such as walking round your neighbourhood as if you're a tourist who has never been there before, or sitting in a public place and observing all the people who come through. There are also photography suggestions. It's a nice idea for a hobby.

I recently started an electronic journal (Day one is case you are thinking of doing one which is excellent). I don't have a problem finding things to type about but thought it would be nice to give it some focus and have some prompts to help with that.I downloaded a few sample books on the kindle and this is the one I preferred, its worth noting its very much a paper biased book but does work fine for an electronic one.So far so good the prompts give a good starter for ten so to speak to write a page or so.I'm finding the whole process of journal writing very beneficial, much easier than trying to do a bit of mindfulness everyday so I'de definitely recommend it.

This book is simply brilliant, I have read the start and have found the ideas really interesting and have started using them. The prompts looks and sound fun to do and I am looking forward to implementing each one. A huge amount of ideas to make the pages look inviting and plenty of inspiration to work with.Anyone looking for inspiration need look no further. A must have book.

I bought this and fell in love with it within the hour. It feels like the author has put a lot of effort into coming up with creative ideas for writing your journal and for the first time in my life I am excited about starting one. I also appreciate the friendly approach of the book. This was well worth the money and probably the most interesting guide to journalling that I have ever read.

Reccomend to anyone who loves to journal! Really good starting ideas/sentences and questions to really think about. Might help to help you to understand yourself more if that is something you struggle with.