These 10 journal prompts inspired by the summer season are here to help inspire you and aid the writing process. They can be used for personal meditation and thoughtful inner exploration, or for creative writing exercises like poems, short stories, and other fiction writing. You can write from your own personal perspective or write through a fictional lens.
- Describe what an ideal summer feels like. Specifically, which feelings, tastes, sounds, and smells resemble the perfect summer? Explain how the senses are triggered and what is most enjoyable about those feelings.
- Think of a book, poem, or film that reminds you of summer that you would want to live in for the season. What aspects of that piece of media call to you most? What would you indulge in within that world?
- What are some small things you can do each day or each week to help you bask in the energy of summer? Explain how those little things help you really sink into and cherish the summer.
- If summer were a poem, what would that poem say? You could write a narrative poem; describe how the senses are impacted by summer; or simply write whatever comes to mind.
- Write a 1-2 page story set during the summer. It could be about hot summer days by the beach, going on a camping trip or to summer camp, or something exciting like an archeology trip.
- Write out a list of books that you have read and/or want to read over the summer. Consider what draws you most to those texts. Is it the intellectual stimulation? The excitement and mystery? Label the books based on what need or craving it fulfills for you.
- Describe the perfect summer day from start to finish. What would you do and feel throughout the day? What would you eat, who would you see, and what makes the day perfect?
- Write about how the summer season has changed over the years. Has the season felt shorter or longer? Have you experienced more or less feelings of freedom over the years? What experiences or feelings would you like to reincorporate or continue?
- List out all of the things that feel like summer to you. It could be things like foods, places, activities, people, or countries. What ever comes to mind, add it to the list.
- Use a few pages for stream of consciousness writing. Write down whatever comes to mind with no judgement and no editing. Just let the words and thoughts flow onto the page however they may.
Final Thoughts
I hope these journal prompts help you to keep writing this summer! Whether you have been feeling stuck and experiencing writers block, or if you’re like me and you’re simply looking for more prompts to add to a never-ending list of prompts, I hope these 10 journal prompts help stir your creative side.
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