• Often when we write a journal, it is easy to get into the habit of writing about the same things.
• The following topics are to help you keep exploring different topics or different ways of looking at life.
• There is no right or wrong way of writing about the topics, so feel free to explore you thoughts wherever they take you.
• Some of topics here may stimulate highly personal writing.
• Write, but do not feel you need to share everything you write.

1. Write about Sunday afternoon.
2. Write about a time someone said, "No" to you.
3. You're standing in a doorway.
4. A year after your death.
5. Write about a harvest moon.
6. Write about bath time when you were a child.
7. Once, when no one was looking . . .
8. It's what I do in the middle of the night.
9. Write about a ceremony.
10. Write about a wound, physical or spiritual.
11. You are in a resort hotel room.
12. Write about an acceptable loss.
13. After midnight.
14. Write about the horizon.
15. It's Saturday afternoon. You're not at home.
16. Write about a tatami room.
17. Write about a time you found out about something you weren't supposed to know.
18. Remember a sound.
19. Write about a hot, muggy summer evening.
20. Look out your window; write what you see.
21. Write about something you bought mail order.
22. Write a love letter. To anyone.
23. Write about leaving.
24. Shadows.
25. Describe the contents of someone's closet.
    
26. Write about a used car.
27. Write about the sky you were born under.
28. The end of the day.
29. Write about a forbidden activity.
30. "The first time I wore _______________."
31. Write about a kiss.
32. Find your way in a city.
33. These are the things women know about love.
34. Write about a black-and white-photograph.
35. "When I awoke the next morning . . . "
36. Write about a stranger.
37. "Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance. Everybody thinks it's true." (Paul Simon)
38. Write about a river.
39. Write about a wild-eyed dream.
40. You hear chicadas in the distance.
41. This is how my heart was broken.
42. Write about your morning.
43. You're moving into another house; write about the people or person who lived there before you.
44. Write about the night sky.
45. Write about a brief encounter.
46. Someone gave you flowers.
47. Blue--the colour or emotion.
48. Write about a local festival.
49. Close your eyes. Write about what you see.
50. Someone's playing the radio.
    
51. Write about a tattoo.
52. These are the pleasures I have known.
53. "By the sea, beneath the yellow and sagging moon." (Walt Whitman)
54. Write about fireworks.
55. The last time.
56. What if . . .
57. Write about a hot spring resort.
58. Write about choices that have changed your life.
59. Write about hair.
60. Write about someone who left.
61. Write about fallen leaves.
62. Night.
63. Write about a secret revealed.
64. Give me a moon story.
65. Write about falling leaves.
66. "You have stayed too long."
67. Write about stealing something.
68. Write about a longing.
69. Write about a justifiable sin.
70. "If I had my way . . ."
71. Write about small injuries.
72. On the eve of the funeral.
73. Write about promises that were broken.
74. You're in the back seat of a taxi.
75. This is a map to where I live.
    
76. Write about a fortune teller.
77. Write about taking the long way round.
78. Write about getting caught in the act.
79. Write what you didn't do.
80. There were signs and signals.
81. "The last time I saw _______,"
82. Write about something astonishing.
83. Every morning.
84. Write about your mother's cooking.
85. A message for my grandchildren.
86. It was a rainy day.
87. Write about eating a meal.
88. Write about what you'll miss when you die.
89. Write about a town you passed through.
90. Write about your father's hands.
91. You're asleep. You're not at home.
92. "I still don't know . . ."
93. Write about a body part.
94. Write about a time you changed your mind.
95. Write about eating at a street stall.
96. These are the things men/women don't know about love.
97. Write about getting in trouble with a teacher.
98. Write about something 100 metres from your house.
99. Just beyond the edge of the woods.
100. Write about a time you did something you didn't want to do.
     

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