To welcome our new 64-page, blank, 100% recycled notebooks, here are 64 creative journal prompts to fill a notebook and learn more about yourself in the process. Documenting your thoughts, dreams, and day-to-day happenings is a surefire way to notice the good in your life. Plus, reading back on old notebooks, journals, or diaries helps you see just how far you’ve come! Pick & choose from these creative journal prompts and let your creativity flow!
64 creative journal prompts to start a new notebook:
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Practice writing Morning Pages.
- Write out mixtape playlists for different people or occasions.
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Make a list of movies you want to see, books you want to read, and/or tv shows you want to watch.
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Collect your favorite quotes.
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Write out your intentions for the upcoming season.
- Start a 100 Day Project.
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Keep a daily diary that includes Did, Saw, Heard, and Drawn.
- List your current top 5 favorite things.
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Draw what’s in front of you on your desk or table.
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Try a blind contour drawing.
- Look through old magazines and make a collage.
- Make a list of things you love.
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Create a moodboard of words, quotes, and collaged images of the person you want to become.
- Gather every marker, colored pencil, crayon, and colored pen you own and test out the colors.
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List what you’re grateful for.
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Write out your goals for the year.
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Paste in a found photograph or picture of people from a magazine and write a fictional story about the people in the photo.
- Paste in ephemera from your daily life: ticket stubs, cool packaging, receipts, stickers.
- Meditate by slowing down and drawing hash marks across an entire page.
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Draw a mind map of an idea you have.
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Paste in photos from a recent trip and write captions to all of them.
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Write down a list of little things that make you happy, calm, or comfortable.
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Press flowers and leaves between the pages. When dry, tape them in.
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Write a letter to your 10-year-old self.
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Write your personal history.
- Fill some pages with scribbles!
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Write a stream of consciousness.
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Sketch out the plans for something you’d like to build or make.
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Jot down things you overhear people say throughout the day.
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Make a list of names you like.
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Make a daily to-do list with checkboxes.
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Write a letter to someone you love, saying all the things you’ve been meaning to say for years.
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Make a list of all the places you’d love to travel to.
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Draw a 4-panel comic of something that happened to you recently.
@austinkleon - Start a year-long project of answering 365 questions: 1 question for every day of the year.
- Write a poem. It doesn’t have to rhyme.
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Write a good-bye letter to some one, or some thing.
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List the movies and shows you’re happy to watch again and again.
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Draw from life. Draw from your imagination.
- Write a fake newsletter to someone you haven’t seen in years, all about your accomplishments and goings-on since you last saw them.
- Try a Zentangle doodle.
- Write down a recipe you always make by heart.
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Draw your own calendar on a 2-page spread and use the notebook as a planner.
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Get mindful by listing something you hear, something you feel, taste, smell, and see.
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Start a Bullet Journal.
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Draw along with an art challenge.
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Plan out your outfits for the entire week.
- Research and make a list of free or low-cost things in your city/area you’d like to do.
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Doodle without stopping for 5 minutes.
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Make a list of things you’re good at.
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Watch a TED Talk and take notes.
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Draw your outfit today.
@zoesees - Pay attention to things that make you laugh out loud during the day. Keep a list.
- Answer these 30 questions for self discovery.
- Plan out your future garden, home, or workspace.
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Make a list of things that inspire you.
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Keep lists of gift ideas for the people in your life.
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Write down your dreams/nightmares right after you wake up.
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Pick a subject and draw that thing over and over again.
@balzerdesigns -
Use your notebook to take study notes for a class or online course.
- Document what a typical day looks like for you. Don’t forget to include the date!
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When you feel the urge to pick up your phone, open your notebook instead and describe what you were going to do on your phone.
@wendymac
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Jessie
December 30, 2020 at 5:24 pm (2 months ago)Wonderful! Thank you to whoever compiled this lovely list of prompts and photos. I am grateful that each picture is accompanied by a credit to the original artist too!