Journal Writing Prompts - Your Memories
On this page, you'll find journal writing prompts related to your memories. For journal prompts focused on your opinions, goals, and daydreams, click here. You'll also find links to more journal ideas and prompts at the bottom of this page.
Journal prompts - Memories- What's something you were afraid of as a child?
- What's something difficult you had to do?
- What's an embarrassing moment that happened to you?
- Who is someone you've lost? What are some of your memories about that person?
- What's something that helped to shape your outlook to life?
- Describe your teachers at school.
- Describe your best childhood friend and your relationship with this person.
- When you were a child, how did you imagine your adult self?
- What's your earliest memory?
- What are some of the memories you associate with springtime? With summer, fall, and winter?
- Day of school or college
- Crush
- Date
- Car
- Home
- Pet
- Job
- Graduation
- Wedding or divorce
- Pregnancy
- Childbirth
- Job or career change, retirement
- pine needles
- cut grass
- sunscreen
- rubbing alcohol
- cinnamon
- stale beer
- pencil erasers
- vinegar
- newly-vacuumed carpet
- orange peel
- radiators heating up
- mothballs
- roses
- a new car
- frying bacon
- damp paper
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