Journaling + Fiction – January 20

“In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.”Robert Hall Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a time you acted on your first impulse but should have acted on your last. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist gets in trouble for acting before thinking.

Journaling + Fiction – January 19

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”John Quincy Adams Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a project or initiative you’re inspired to lead. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist tries to attract a group of followers and fails.

Journaling + Fiction – January 18

“Everyone has his own day and some days last longer than the others.”Winston Churchill Journal prompt: Reflect on your previous journal entries and spend at least 20 minutes writing about your feelings and experiences observing someone (who might be you) receive an honor or reward the person did not deserve. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist must participate in a...

Journaling + Fiction – January 17

“Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.”Victoria Schwab Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a moment when curiosity inspired you to sympathize with another person. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist learns s/he should have been sympathetic towards another person but was not because s/he was too busy to be curious.

Journaling + Fiction – January 16

“Integrity is the essence of everything successful.”R. Buckminster Fuller Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about your experience or observation of an important project’s failure due to integrity problems. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which a lack of integrity endangers your protagonist.

Journaling + Fiction – January 15

“The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.”Malcolm X Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about a topic of current interest about which you could afford to be more open-minded. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist’s mental inflexibility unnecessarily complicates...

Journaling + Fiction – January 14

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”William Arthur Ward Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about the person in your life for whom you feel the most gratitide. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist misses a chance to express gratitude to a person who in the future will have great influence over your protagonist’s...

Journaling + Fiction – January 13

“Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.”John Cage Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about an experience in which you were judged inaccurately or unfairly. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist is judged unfairly or inaccurately by a person in a position of authority.