Daily journalling prompts

Taking a break

2008-09-22T13:26:00.002+01:00

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Quotations - family

2008-09-15T08:08:00.000+01:00

This week's writing and journalling prompts are sayings and quotations about the family.

Use the quote as a starter for your writing. Big family events and reunions can be wonderful or a little trying…
If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.
Ashleigh Brilliant

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO about a family reunion

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Quotations - sweets

2008-09-14T08:07:00.000+01:00

This week's writing topic and journal prompts are from sayings and quotes.

Use the quote as a starter for your writing.
Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. Barbara
Johnson
~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO about a favourite food of your family.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Quotations - the family as a gift

2008-09-13T08:06:00.000+01:00

This week's journal prompts for writers and scrapbookers are all quotations about the family.

Use the quote as a starter for your writing.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are
to them. Desmond Tutu

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO including every member of your immediate family

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Quotations – extended family

2008-09-12T09:06:00.000+01:00

This week's writing and journalling prompts are from quotations

Use the quote as a starter for your writing. Is the following true for you?
The word family has taken on a wonderful and extended meaning... and can
include people like coworkers or roommates. Angela Shapiro

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a minibook with each page dedicated to a person who has meant a lot to you in your life.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Quotations – ruling the family

2008-09-11T09:05:00.000+01:00

This week's prompts for writing and journaling are all quotations.

Use the quote as a starter for your writing. Who rules your family? Successfully? Does your family have rules or are you against them?
It is easier to rule a kingdom than to regulate a family. Chinese
Proverb

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO about rules that your family have whether formal or informal: “We always have scrambled egg for Sunday breakfast”

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Quotations – family as friends

2008-09-10T08:06:00.000+01:00

This week we’re writing in our journals and scrapbooks following from inspiration of famous quotes and sayings.

Use the quote as a starter for your writing. Are your family members also friends? Or are your friends closer than your family?

Friends are God's apology for relations. Hugh Kingsmill

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO with this quote as the title.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Quotations - family

2008-09-09T08:00:00.000+01:00

This week's writing and journalling prompts are inspired by quotations.

Use the quote as a starter for your writing.

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.
Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. Jane Howard

What does family mean to you?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO with the title “family”.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Titles - slang

2008-09-08T08:28:00.000+01:00

This week's writing and journalling prompts are about titles.

Can you write starting with a title that is a piece of local slang or traditional terminology?

Pearly princess
Yorkshire Pudding
Angel of the North

Titles – quotes

2008-09-07T08:27:00.000+01:00

This week's writing topic and journal prompts are from titles.

Today - use a saying or quotation

"It's not the days in your life that count, but the life in your days."

Titles – similes

2008-09-06T08:24:00.000+01:00

This week's journal prompts for writers and scrapbookers are about titles. Today, why not start your writing with a simile - a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by ‘like’ or ‘as’:

Shine brightly like the star you are!

Titles – inspired by definitions

2008-09-05T08:23:00.000+01:00

This week's writing and journalling prompts are about Titles of various kinds.

Today – be inspired by a definition - look up a word in the dictionary – or here’s one to get you started.

Accomplish (ac·com·plish ) 1. to succeed in doing or achieving something 2.
reach point in time: to arrive at the end of a period of time

Try to create your own definition for a strong word such as an emotion - add to the definition with a thoughtful extra that is more feeling than definition.

Titles – inspiration from literature

2008-09-04T08:22:00.001+01:00

This week's prompts for writing and journaling are about Titles.

Here is inspiration from Shakespeare, no less! Romeo and Juliet…

What’s in a name?

Titles – inspiration from TV

2008-09-03T08:20:00.000+01:00

This week we’re writing in our journals and scrapbooks about Titles.

Today - take inspiration from the TV

Top Gear

Titles – not quite puns

2008-09-02T08:18:00.000+01:00

Simple writing and journalling prompts this week: titles

Create a piece of writing or a layout.

Rules of engagement

Computers – the internet

2008-09-01T07:42:00.000+01:00

This week's writing and journalling prompts are about computers.

What are your favourite websites and why?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO about one of your favourite scrapping websites and what it has taught you about scrapping. Use a screenshot as your central feature.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Computers – the future

2008-08-31T07:01:00.000+01:00

This week's writing topic and journal prompts are about computers.

What kind of computer would you like to have in future? How do you think computers will change?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a minibook about all the different aspects of computers and their use.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Computers – typography

2008-08-30T08:00:00.000+01:00

This week's journal prompts for writers and scrapbookers are about computers.

Today – experiment – take a poem and display or print it out in different fonts, sizes and colours if you can. Download some new fonts. Does using different fonts make a difference to how you read? To how you write? Take a piece of your own writing and play with the font/print settings.

Does it inspire you in different ways?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO heavily focused on typography

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Computers – peripherals

2008-08-29T07:59:00.000+01:00

This week's writing and journalling prompts are about computers of all kinds.

Today - write about the peripherals you have – do you like your keyboard? Is your screen big enough? What peripherals would you like to have?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO entitled “Through the screen”.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Computers - wordprocessing

2008-08-28T09:58:00.000+01:00

This week's prompts for writing and journaling are about computers.

Do you prefer to write on the computer, using a word processor – or do you prefer to write with pen and paper? Compare and contrast…

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Use your journalling in your word processor and create a neat piece of text with various fonts that you can use as a journalling spot in a layout. Alternatively, create a beautifully handwritten piece and use it in a layout!

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Computers – my first computer

2008-08-27T07:57:00.001+01:00

This week we’re writing in our journals and scrapbooks about computers.

Describe your first encounter with computers? When was it? Was it a success?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO about your computer.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Computers – software

2008-08-26T08:55:00.000+01:00

This week's writing and journalling prompts are about computers.

First – what software do you find essential on your computer? Or do you hate to use one at all?

Why?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO about your favourite software.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Groups - events

2008-08-25T07:53:00.000+01:00

This week's writing and journalling prompts are about groups.

Have you been in any large groups at organized events?

Write about the experience of being in a large group.

How did you get to know the others in your group?

Did the group come together well or were there frictions?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO about an event when you or a family member were part of a large group.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Groups – heritage

2008-08-24T07:52:00.000+01:00

This week's writing topic and journal prompts are about groups.

Over the years you have probably been in groups at various celebration events, weddings, family occasions.

Pick one that stands out in your memory and write as much as possible about the event.

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a heritage LO about a wedding or other special occasion, focusing on the group rather than just the bride and groom.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Groups – uniformed groups

2008-08-23T07:51:00.000+01:00

This week's journal prompts for writers and scrapbookers are about groups.

Have you or a child of yours ever been a member of a uniformed organisation such as a marching band, the scouts or brownies? Write about the organisation and what it meant to you or them.

What kind of events took place during membership?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO about a uniformed group.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~