2. Why should I shrink from any of my mistakes, when I commune thus with myself?
3. WHY DIP YOUR FEET IN UNCHARTED WATERS?
4. Have you ever cheated on a school homework assignment or a test? Do you still regret it today?
5. Describe your favorite photograph.
6. What is something you deserve but do not currently have?
7. Did you have a "lovey" as a child? Do you still have one?
8. Imagine your life is now a best-selling book. Write the summary for the back cover.
9. Write you own eulogy.
10. Describe one summer adventure form your child?
11. Is there one of the arts that you just do not understand? Which one?
12. Do you like horror stories? What is the best one you have heard?
13. If you had to do it all over again, how would you reinvent your life?
14. Describe a wedding cake you have seen or had.
15. Write about your first day at your current job.
16. Do you remember your 21st birthday? Descibe it as best you can.
17. Write about a time you said, "No!" as a child.
18. What is your favorite TV series?
19. Have you ever taken a huge risk? What was it, and was it worth it?
20. Write about an event going on in your life right now, but see if you can write about it in the past tense.
21. Write about a teacher of yours who did something noteworthy.
22. Why do you live in the city or state that you do?
23. Have you ever met someone who expressed emotion in an over-the-top way?
24. Describe something you do not know that you wish you did.
25. Describe your idea of a utopia.
26. Do you like or have facial hair?
27. What grinds your gears and really annoys you?
28. What catches your eye about the architecture of a building?
29. What would life be like if unicorns and dragons existed?
30. Have you ever been attacked by an animal?
31. What kinds of recipes do you gravitate towards (e.g. desserts, casseroles, drinks) ?
32. What kinds of items fill your bookshelves?
33. What was the last puzzle you worked on?
34. Describe your most recent dreams you can remember.
35. Describe in detail a float you have seen in a parade.
36. Are you a sports fan? Do you watch or participate? Which sports?
37. List 25 things you will never do.
38. Imagine you are at your next high school reunion. How would you think your old school friends would react to the person you are today?
39. What does spring look like in your neighborhood?
40. You have been given $100 on the condition that you must spend it all on yourself. What will you do with your money?
41. If you could build your own vacation resort, what is one attraction you would definitely include?
42. Do you think table manners are important? Why?
43. Have you ever had something stolen from you?
44. What is one phrase you would really like to hear right now?
45. Why are families important? What do families provide that we cannot find on our own?
46. What is standing in your way right now?
47. If you had the resources and extra time to go back to school, what would you like to study?
48. When was the last time someone truly listened to you?
49. What do you think you are destined for in this life?
50. What is the best thing about being either single or partnered (whichever you are right now) ?
51. If you could visit anyone on the planet right now, who would you go see?
52. Describe your first kiss.
53. What is your favorite desert?
54. If you had a pet parrot, what would you teach it to say?
55. Name three things you have in your bathroom right now.
56. What is something you have learned in the past few days?
57. If you could change one personality trait about yourself, would you? Which one?
58. Do you have a favorite spot to go out for coffee or dinner? What makes this spot so great?
59. What is more important in a friend: someone who makes you laugh, or someone who is always there for you?
60. Do you recycle? If so, what do you recycle? If not, why not?
61. Do you have any piercings? Do you like them on other people? Does it matter where they are?
62. Is there anything you are ever a snob about?
63. How clean is your house right now?
64. What do you think the biggest cultural differences are between your generation and your parent's generation?
65. Do you use coupons?
66. There is a strong current trend among kids to read comic books or graphic novels instead of regular book. What do you think about that?
67. What do you want more out of life: happiness or success?
68. Have you ever snooped in a friend or partner's house?
69. What is your favorite physical aspect of your partner? If you are single, describe something you like about a crush or your family celebrity day.
70. Describe the day you met your best friend, from your friend's point of view.
71. What is a priority for you right now?
72. Are you making the world a better place?
73. Should kids be allowed to have personal cell phones and tablets in school?
74. Is there a mistake you keep making repeatedly in your life? Explain.
75. What would you like said about you at your funeral?
76. What requires your patience today?
77. Rewrite some of these commonly used idioms to make them more interesting, or maybe start a story: "Pardon my French," "My mind is in a fog," "There is more than one way to skin a car," "You are on thin ice."
78. Were you ever bullied as a child? Tell a story of a time you were bullied, or a time you observed someone being bullied.
79. Do you do good things when no one is watching?
80. If you had a child who had done something very wrong, such as stealing, how would you punish them?
81. What are your thoughts about euthanasia?
82. Have you ever been cheated on?
83. Who has been the best leader of your country, past or present (e.g., president, royalty, prime minister, etc.) ?
84. What do you look for when deciding whether or not to date someone?
85. What do you believe happens after we die?
86. Does religion play an important role in your life? Why or why not?
87. If you could live to see any event in the future, what would that event be?
88. Which is stronger, love or hate?
89. What are some of the hard facts about life?
90. What is the best pickup line you know?
91. What is the worst emotion a human being can feel?
92. Describe a way a friend supported you when you needed it.
93. What is your favorite CD of album?
94. Describe your ultimate sandwich.
95. What date do you have circled on your calendar? That is, what upcoming date or event are you looking forward to?
96. Write about a moment when you felt proud of yourself.
97. Do you prefer to dance with no one watching, with a group of friends, or with one special partner?
98. Write about the weirdest job you ever had.
99. What is a personality trait you admire in other people?
100. Would you rather spend the day at an art museum, science museum, or history museum?
101. Describe your favorite comic strip or cartoon.
102. What is the best compliment you have ever received?
103. Are you more like your mother or your father? Or are you more like someone else?
104. Who was your favorite band or singer when you were young?
105. Does your name have a meaning? If so, what is it? If not, make up your own meaning for it.
106. What is the best piece of advice you have ever been given?
107. Describe the most beautiful sound you have ever heard.
108. In what way do you not fit with the family you grew up with?
109. Recall a memorable haircut or hairstyle you have had, given, or witnessed.
110. Break up your life (up to this point) into three chapters, and give each chapter a title.
111. It is been said that it is the little things that make life worth living. Describe one (or several) of those little things.
112. What do you know is true?
113. Write about the most important quality any mother should have.
114. In what one way should airlines improve airplane travel?
115. Do you like your name? Do you feel like it suits you? If you could change your name, would you? What would you change it to?
116. What is your favorite holiday, and what do you love about it?
117. What has ended recently in you life, or what new thing has just began?
118. What is the most useful tool you own?
119. Make up a really awkward description or ad for an online dating site.
120. When have you felt like "the new kid"?
121. If you had a "do-over" button, what one event in your life would you like to have a second chance at?
122. Describe in detail one item that you would love to inherit from a relative, or that you have inherited.
123. Think of the last movie you saw. Write a review of it.
124. What book or book series did you wish would continue when you were done reading it?
125. Is your world today a better or worse place than it was when you were a kid?
126. If you could be the best in the world at something, what would it be?
127. Write about something nice a stranger did for you.
128. Complete this though: "I would never...."
129. What is your favorite room in your home or apartment?
130. If you had the opportunity to write as a career, what would you write?
131. What modern technology would you have trouble living without?
132. What is the weirdest thing you have ever eaten?
133. If you could pack up and leave on vacation today, where would you be off to?
134. What one issue is most important to you when voting for political candidates??
135. What do you want your retirement to be like?
136. What is the most offensive thing you have ever heard anyone say?
137. What has made you angry this week?
138. What is your favorite breakfast to get you up and out the door?
139. Were you ever involved in a school play as a student? Did you act, sing, design props, play an instrument, or hold prompt cards?
140. Write about a time you had to let go of something you loved or wanted.
141. How do you soothe yourself when you are upset?
142. Imagine you are planning a trip across the continent on which you live. Assuming you have unlimited time, resources, and energy, what will be your mode of transportation?
143. What, in your opinion, is strength?
144. Write about a time you broke something.
145. Do you consider yourself an introvert or an extrovert? How does this compare to how others see you?
146. Think about a time you were recently in public. Describe what you were doing from the point of view of a stranger observing you.
147. Write about the most recent skill you have acquired.
148. Write about an item you use frequently that you think (or hope) will be obsolete in 20 years.
149. Make up a new ending for this saying: "People who live in glass houses should not....""
150. If you could go back in time exactly 10 years and give yourself some advice, what would you tell yourself?
151. What is your mom like?
152. Does writing change you? How does writing make you a better person?
153. Write about a recent decision that you have made.
154. Do you have an ex that would ever consider dating again? (If not, how bad were they?)
155. If you could win a lifetime supply of anything you choose, what would you choose?
156. Write about a piece of jewelry you own. Where did it come from? When do you wear it?
157. If you could spend a day living the adventures of any cartoon character, which one would you choose?
158. What keeps you from getting a good night's sleep?
159. What was the first thing you ever saved up your money to purchase?
160. What bad habit would you like to change?
161. Describe a "first day" in your life (first day of marriage, of school, etc.).
162. A new Broadway musical is about your life. Come up with a title for the big show, and write a mini-review of it.
163. Describe your memories of a piece of furniture from your childhood home.
164. Complete this thought: "Today I hope...."
165. What is something you would like to see invented that would make your life easier?
166. Write a one-minute "Thank You" note to someone.
167. Ask a kid, what job did you dream you would have as an adult? What job do you have now?
168. Write about one of your most embarrassing moments.
169. Write about your first home: your childhood home or your first apartment or house of your own.
170. Have you ever been significantly more or less physically fit than you are today? What was different about that? What was easier? Harder? Did others treat you any differently?
171. When was the last time you felt needed?
172. Have you ever made a friend with, or fallen in love with, someone you met online?
173. What do you spend most of your time doing every day (when you are not writing)?
174. What do you and your spouse or best friend have in common?
175. What would you like to put in storage?
176. What is sure-fire way to distract you from the task at hand?
177. Fill in the blanks: "I would like to march right up to______________ and say, "__________________".
178. How do you react when someone compliments you?
179. If and when you become the Supreme Ruler of the World, who will be your top advisor?
180. Write about an extracurricular activity you did when you were growing up, and how it affects (or does not affect) your life now. If you did not do any extracurricular activities, write about what you would have liked to do.
181. Write about an experience you had when you lost track of time.
182. Look around you right now. What is wrong with this picture?
183. What do the clothes you are wearing now say about you?
184. Which do you prefer: sunrise or sunset?
185. Where would you be pleased to find yourself locked up overnight?
186. You have magic soap. What does it wash away?
187. What is something you just need a kick in the pants to finish?
188. What is something totally overrated in your world?
189. Snakes: interesting or creepy? Why?
190. What about the beach: your favorite memory of a trip, what you love, what you hate (e.g., sand gets everywhere). Would you live on the coast if you could, or is it better just for a visit?
191. What is something you have learned lately?
192. Write about the middle of something, anything!
193. What do you have to do today that you really would rather not do?
194. Write about an interesting date you have been on, good or bad.
195. What is one of your greatest blessings?
196. If this week had a theme to it, what would yours be?
197. If you woke up tomorrow and discovered that everything in life was now free, what is the first thing you would do?
198. Where do you like to do your journaling? At a desk, in your bed, at the coffee shop?
199. What is the weirdest name you can come up with (or know someone with)? If you had to give a character a really, really unusual name, what would you choose and what would it show about their personality?
200. Write about something you made by hand.
201. If you had lived hundreds of years ago, what kind of work do you think you whould have done? What job would you have wanted to do?
202. Periodically we have tension build up in our lives that requires a release of some kind. Some people cry; others punch; some find a creative outlet. What is your release?
203. Write about a song and the memories or feelings it evokes in you.
204. Do you have any dreams that recur? Why do you think you continue to have that dream?
205. Do you absolutely hate any food that other people usually like?
206. What is your favorite game to play?
207. You have a child and you have written one piece of advice that will be carried in his or her pocket for life. What is that advice?
208. Where would you like to go on a day trip? You must drive there and back in one day, but you have unlimited funds for gas, food, and activities.
209. If you could have one talent that you do not naturally have, what would it be?
210. Think of a celebrity you would like to have dinner with. Write a note that just might catch that person's attention enough for him or her to agree to the dinner.
211. You have two hours to do something relaxing and a budget of $100. What will you do?
212. Imagine you are a news anchor. Write the beginning of tonight's newscast. Make the top story what you truly think could happen today, or what you wish would happen today.
213. Write about a memorable experience you have had staying at a hotel.
214. It is been said, "You are what you eat." Rewrite that phrase: "You are what you......"
215. What expert do you wish could come teach you what they know?
216. Write about the last time you felt guilty.
217. Describe a time you cared for someone who was sick, or someone cared for you.
218. Write about the most recent gift you gave someone.
219. Write about a time you said no.
220. Describe (in a creative way) how you feel when you have a head cold.
221. Think back to your childhood. Write about an article of clothing or an outfit you remember one of your parents (or another influential adult figure) wearting.
222. Have you done any research into your ancestors? What interesting surprises have you discovered?
223. Complete this simile: "As awkward as...."
224. Do you prefer to read electronic books or paper books? Why?
225. What special tradition or holiday celebration does your family observe?
226. Do you have anyone in your life that has acted as a mentor to you? Have you ever helped someone else out in this way?
227. What is your favorite holiday ornament or decoration? What makes it so special to you?
228. When was the last time you pulled an all-nighter? Why did you do it? How did you feel afterwards?
229. If you had unlimited time and money, what would you do to help your friends and family? What about strangers?
230. How do you strive to be similar to, or different from, your parents?
231. Write about an item you own that is not worth much money but has great value to you.
232. Describe your favorite article of clothing.
233. If your house was on fire, what would you grab before escaping?
234. What is the best excuse for being late that you have ever heard our used?
235. If you were a book, in which section of the bookshop would you be shelved? Which genre are you most drawn to?
236. Which household chores are you responsible for? Which do you hate doing? Which ones do you actually like?
237. What takes too long?
238. Write briefly about one thing in your life that is simple and one thing that is complex.
239. Write about a messy area in your home, workplace, or life.
240. Are there any lines that you simply will not cross?
241. Write about a good discovery you have made (big or small).
242. How do you act when you are afraid?
243. When have you experienced "heaven on earth?"
244. In what way are you selfish?
245. What do you love doing that you wish you could get paid for?
246. What is the last thing (or one of the last things) you searched for on the Internet? Why?
247. Complete this thought: "Someone really needs to design a better..."
248. In what way are you strong?
249. What do you think is the most important question in life?
250. What do you do, even when you do not feel like it?
251. Think about the various roles you play in your life. If you had to give up all but one, which one would you keep?
252. What traffic sign best reflects your life right now?
253. What is a memory you would like to erase?
254. Write about a memory you have related to a campfire.
255. Look around you and choose an object in the room. Now write something from the point of view of that object.
256. Why do you think some people are successful in life and others are not?
257. Write a quick love story. The story must end badly.
258. Describe one odd item that you have in your purse or wallet right now.
259. Write about something you frequently forget.
260. Do you have a tattoo? What is it and why did you get it? If not, would you ever get one? What would the tattoo be, and what would it symbolize to you?
261. What have you been able to accomplish this year that you are really proud of?
262. You look outside: Ah, it is snowing! But look closer. Those are not snowflakes falling from the sky! What is it snowing at your house?
263. What is the best road trip or vacation you have ever taken? Who was there? Where did you go? What did you see along the way?
264. What do you think is the most important thing for today's kids to learn in school?
265. Write about something you would still buy if it cost twice as much as it costs today.
266. What are you recovering from right now?
267. Complete this thought: "I wish an alarm would notify me whenever..."
268. What was the last thing you read, heard, or saw that inspired you?
269. What is the biggest trigger for stress in your life?
270. Write about a souvenir you have bought or received.
271. Write about a time everything changed in the blink of an eye.
272. If you were to teach as a career, what would you teach?
273. What color do you feel like today?
274. Write about something you purchased used.
275. What is the first thing you do when you wake up every morning? Why?
276. Have you ever lived in another country besides your country of birth? Would you want to?
277. Have you ever had the rotten experience of having to put a pet down?
278. What modern technological device takes up most of your time?
279. It is end of your life and you are up on stage being presented with a major award. What award is it, and what have you won it for?
280. What do you need right now?
281. Have you ever experienced something that just could not be logically explained?
282. If I looked into your fridge right now, what would I find?
283. If you had been able to choose, would you rather have been an only child or part of a very large family?
284. You are a children's book writer. Write the first few lines of your new book.
285. List a few phobias you have. When and how did you discover you had these fears?
286. Write about three realistic goals you would like to achieve in your lifetime.
287. What area of your life do you tend to enjoy in excess instead of moderation?
288. When was the last time you got lost?
289. What stupid question have you heard someone ask (or asked yourself)?
290. Were you born to shine in one special way? What makes you really stand out?
291. What do you look forward to every week?
292. Complete this thought: "I wish I had paid more attention when..."
293. Do you prefer taking risks or having a safety net?
294. What did you get into trouble for the most when you were a kid?
295. Write a diary entry, dated 10 years in the future.
296. What is your favorite work of art? What do you love about it?
297. Have you ever spoken up when you saw something going on that was wrong? Were you scared? What ended up happening?
298. What is your favorite way to spend a lazy day?
299. HOW POWER TRAVELS ACROSS MEDIA LANDSCAPES?
300. Give your city (or town or region) a new name that reflects what type of place it is, and explain why you chose that name.
301. Write about something presently in your life that is "worth it".
302. You are the wind's interpreter. What is it saying?
303. Come up with a mathematical formula to express something you know or believe. (Example: Long Saturday run + Frappucino = Happiness
304. Name one thing you have lied to yourself about. Why did you did this?