Welcome to my 2020 Blogging A-Z April Challenge. Each day, I will post a brief Journal On! Daily Writers’ Workshops lesson and prompt. Teachers, parents, and students may use the material to encourage daily writing practice, spark insight, and embrace mindful reflection.
Does your mind wander? Are you are silently focused on a daydream? Did some offer “A penny for your thoughts?”
I never got a penny for sharing my thoughts, but it has always been well worth my effort to journal them. Best-laid plans and lousy ideas are hatched from quiet thoughts. I let them ramble in my journal. Many of the sentences don’t go together, but it does not matter. No one but me has to understand them. Sometimes I find solutions to problems and answers to questions. Often though, I feel relief and satisfaction that it is written down—well worth a penny of time.
Let’s explore those daydreamy thoughts.
Until tomorrow, Everyone.
Antoinette Truglio Martin is the author of Hug Everyone You Know: A Year of Community, Courage, and Cancer. The memoir is a wimpy patient’s journey through her first year of breast cancer treatment.
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I also never earned a penny for sharing my thought but sharing helps me declutter my mind and that helps.
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It would be especially interesting to see what everyone is daydreaming about now with our current situation keeping us all at home. Weekends In Maine
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I have been journaling during C19, but hadn’t thought about using prompts. Tonight I will try one of these and see how it goes 🙂
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I’d be interested to learn how the prompt worked for you.
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These are such interesting ideas to get words tumbling out on paper. I sometimes get my best ideas just before I fall off to sleep. It’s for this reason I keep a journal next to my bedside. However, I would like to write fluidly keeping your prompts next time. Great post!
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Thank you! I hope you have a chance to try many of the prompts.
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