Hi! I'm starting to try to keep writing a lang-8 entry everyday but the thing is I always do not know what to say. Do you have/know any posts or prompts for journal entries? Sorry for bothering you!
Something that happened yesterday, something that happened today, something that will happen tomorrow.
20 things that make you happy
20 things that you or your family bought recently (it’s ok to include things from the supermarket- the goal is to build vocabulary)
20 things you can see in your room
20 things you see on the way to your local bus stop/store/station etc
20 things you feel lucky to have in your life
Glue in a photo and label everything you can, write sentences about the photo to describe it underneath, try to use prepositions if you can to describe the location of objects in relation to each other (this is great practise for tests as this is a typical task given to beginners in speaking exams)
what you think or feel about something that happened today
what you like to do in your free time
what you used to do and would like to start up again (a habit or hobby)
What has changed in your life recently
What your hopes for 2016 are
What you’re happy you achieved in 2015
What you’re like (your personality)
What you’ve become able to do recently
What the best present you ever got was
What surprised you recently
What you think about ghosts
What your favourite animals are and why you like them so much
What the strangest/funniest/most inspiring thing that ever happened to you was
What would happen if animals could talk
What would happen if you found a lot of money
What law you’d make and why if you could make one new law for your country or town
What you do when you feel sad/happy/sick//angry/can’t sleep/nervous
What you have lost recently
What natural environments and features (streams /trees /meadows /mountains) you like the most and why
What you’d most like to see or learn about in Japan and why
What about your favourite food/restaurant/band/place/childhood toy/book is
Who you admire and how do they motivate you
What is something you couldn’t ever give away and why
Who has had a big influence on you
Who you’d like to spend more time with and why
Who you’d like to become in the future
Who you used to admire, but don’t any more and why
Who you turn to when you need support or advice and why
Who you can always rely on to make you laugh
who would you most like to talk to from history and why
How you thought your life would be at this point when you were a child
How you think your life will be in five or ten years
How you think technology will develop in 10 years
How you make your favourite food
How you’d spend the money if you won the lottery
Describe a journey you took recently
Describe your school or workplace
Describe your first memory
Describe your morning or evening routine
Describe your idea of heaven or hell
Describe something that happened that changed you forever
Describe some recent news event or article and your opinion on it
Describe a place you’d love to visit and why
Describe your favourite sounds
Describe your perfect date
Describe what you do when it snows
Describe what you do on really hot, sunny days
Describe what you do on your favourite holiday or festival
Describe something from your country or region that’s unique or that foreigners wouldn’t recognise, but everyone from your country instantly knows (e.g. Jaffa Cakes in the UK, marimo in Japan, milk in a bag in Ontario, in France etc)
Describe a legend, mythical creature or folktale from where you grew up
Describe things you enjoy doing in each season
Describe what animal you’d like to be and why
Describe what you’d like to do on your next birthday
Describe what kind of clothes you’ve been wearing recently and how you feel about them, this could focus on fashion, the weather or whatever you like
Describe what you’d take to a desert island
Describe what instrument you’d like to be able to play and why
Compare two foods/animals/places/seasons and say which you prefer and why
If you’re searching on google look for things like ESL or EFL journal prompts- there is an absolutely ENORMOUS community of ESL teachers online, yo’re bound to find more ideas than you could ever possibly use. There’s no reason why you can’t use these to write in Japanese- it’s just a springboard topic idea.There are some examples here and here.
This post would be excellent of high intermediate or advanced students: 365 journal prompts.There are also some prompt blogs on Turmblr you could follow:journalwritingprompts
For those who prefer to practise handwriting:
I like the 日記ノート book which is a handwritten diary with some prompts and vocabulary in it. (ISBN:978-4757415553)
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