Are you staying close to home due to the pandemic? Do you need an outlet to write your concerns, joys, or memories? Pick up a journal, Composition book, or a simple spiral notebook and start putting your thoughts down on paper.
If you are looking for daily inspiration for August, check out the following journal prompts.
- How did the month of July go for you? Did you learn anything new about yourself? Your family?
- What are you looking forward to accomplishing in August? Make a detailed list.
- What is your current “stay at home” status due to the recent coronavirus pandemic? Expand on your concerns over the virus in your area, if any.
- What plans did you have to give up this summer due to the pandemic? What was your alternative?
- Do you have school-age children? What are your concerns about returning to school? Are you going to homeschool, attend online, or face-to-face? What do you feel is the best option?
- What is your biggest hope for your children for the upcoming school year?
- What is your best school memory?
- What was your favorite subject in school? Why?
- Who was your favorite teacher? Why did this person make such an impact on you?
- Are you still in touch with your childhood friends? Why or why not?
- Did you go to football games, school dances, or other after school activities? What was your favorite one? Why?
- Did you participate in sports or other after school activities? What did you learn from the experience?
- Do you miss anything about your school days? Why or why not?
- Write about the most memorable summer vacation from childhood? Why is this one different from the rest?
- Did you go to college? Write about attending your first college class.
- What are your plans to celebrate the end of summer?
- If you could go anywhere in the world right now, where would you go? Why?
- List 10 things you want to accomplish before the end of the year.
- Think about a famous person you would like to meet. Who did you pick? Why did you choose this person?
- Describe your entire day. Go into great detail.
- If you could step into a fictional world from a book, television series, or movie, where would you go? Why did you pick this particular universe?
- Write down one thing that made you smile today.
- What is your one bad habit? What can you do to change this particular behavior?
- What are your best attributes? Try to list at least 5, ten would be better.
- What craft or hobby would you like to learn? What is the biggest obstacle?
- Middle of the week-free write for 15 minutes.
- If you could write a book, what would the storyline be? What is stopping you from writing your first novel?
- Happy Friday! What are your weekend plans?
- Describe one thing that brought you complete joy from this last week, month, and today.
- What were you doing at 11 am, 2 pm, 7 pm? Describe each time slot with great detail.
- What are you looking forward to doing in September?
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