Ready to jump into a new feeling? These daily August journal prompts ask you to let yourself be surprised by what comes out on the page.
See if you can finish each sentence, accept what’s on the page, and work with it.
I suggest giving yourself at least ten minutes or one full page per prompt, but go as long as you like!
If we haven’t met, I’m Megan. I’m a trained facilitator, respectful writing coach, and award-winning author. I journal daily-ish. I keep doing it because it’s fun, because it’s a place where new ideas can emerge without the pressure of expectations, and because I think it helps me be more honest and accepting in my writing and in my life. If you’d like to try something fresh in your journaling this month, here’s my Megged-up list of August journal prompts.
August Journal Prompts (revise from here down plz)
Click here for a printable .pdf file of all 31 August journal prompts.
1. I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about…
2. I wish people talked more openly about…
3. I really like it when…
4. I am glad that I decided not to…
5. I don’t know if it’s really important, but sometimes I…
6. I wish I could remember everything about…
7. If I had a month with no plans or obligations, I might…
8. I would never say this to their face, but…
9. I have almost always been good at…
10. If I could change anything about the world, I would…
11. I learned a lot from…
12. I wonder what it would be like to…
13. I got a lot for my money when I bought…
14. I might never be sure quite how I feel about…
15. If I knew I was gonna live forever, I would definitely…
16. Honestly, I do some of my best work when…
17. I like having friendships where I can…
(psst… if you want mood music to help you focus, here’s my personal journaling playlist:
ok, back to the prompts…)
18. I would like to really get a handle on…
19. I wonder if I’ll ever…
20. I’d have a lot more free time if wasn’t trying to…
21. It would be so cool if I suddenly found out…
22. If I got dropped right into it tomorrow with no prep or training, I bet I could do a pretty good job at…
23. I almost always feel better right after I…
24. I’ve been thinking about it for a while, but I still haven’t…
25. I’m a work in progress, but I feel like lately I’ve been getting better at…
26. In retrospect, it’s obvious that I…
27. One thing I’ve really never wanted to do is…
28. If I had complete and total freedom, I’m scared that I might…
29. I’m glad that I’m myself and not…
30. After I die, I hope that…
31. If everything in my life were perfect, at night I would dream about…
Those are my August journal prompts. Thanks for looking at all of them (or scrolling past ’em, at least.)
Journaling is its own reward, but if you stumble across something that you want to share… I hope you’ll follow your gut and see where it leads. That one cool sentence, that spark of an idea, or even that feeling you got while writing it… could that be the start of an essay, a story, a song lyric, maybe even a book? Do you just want to text it to a friend and let ’em know what you’ve uncovered?
If you want to make an impact with your words, I’m available to give you f*ckin’ friendly, majorly honest sliding-scale creative writing coaching. Get your ideas into the world.
xo, megan
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