Quotations - family

This week's writing and journalling prompts are sayings and quotations about the family.

Use the quote as a starter for your writing. Big family events and reunions can be wonderful or a little trying…

If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.
Ashleigh Brilliant

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Create a LO about a family reunion

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Quotations - sweets

This week's writing topic and journal prompts are from sayings and quotes.

Use the quote as a starter for your writing.

Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. Barbara
Johnson

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Create a LO about a favourite food of your family.

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Quotations - the family as a gift

This week's journal prompts for writers and scrapbookers are all quotations about the family.

Use the quote as a starter for your writing.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are
to them. Desmond Tutu

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Create a LO including every member of your immediate family

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Quotations – extended family

This week's writing and journalling prompts are from quotations

Use the quote as a starter for your writing. Is the following true for you?

The word family has taken on a wonderful and extended meaning... and can
include people like coworkers or roommates. Angela Shapiro

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Create a minibook with each page dedicated to a person who has meant a lot to you in your life.

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Quotations – ruling the family

This week's prompts for writing and journaling are all quotations.

Use the quote as a starter for your writing. Who rules your family? Successfully? Does your family have rules or are you against them?

It is easier to rule a kingdom than to regulate a family. Chinese
Proverb

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Create a LO about rules that your family have whether formal or informal: “We always have scrambled egg for Sunday breakfast”

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Quotations – family as friends

This week we’re writing in our journals and scrapbooks following from inspiration of famous quotes and sayings.

Use the quote as a starter for your writing. Are your family members also friends? Or are your friends closer than your family?

Friends are God's apology for relations. Hugh Kingsmill

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Create a LO with this quote as the title.

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Quotations - family

This week's writing and journalling prompts are inspired by quotations.

Use the quote as a starter for your writing.

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.
Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. Jane Howard

What does family mean to you?

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Create a LO with the title “family”.

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Play - insight?

The writing prompts this week are about play:

“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.” Joseph Chilton Pearce

Has playing or experimenting ever given you an insight?

e.g., Have you learned to use a camera or software by playing?

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You probably have pictures of yourself "letting your hair down".

Use one (or more) of these to create a LO or mini-book about how you have fun...

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Travel: coming home

Daily blogging prompts give you something to write about – even if you only blog once or twice a week or less. And writing prompts are a boon for the author with writer’s block. Scrapbookers too are often stumped for ideas. Try something a bit different about your journalling…

The last in this week’s special feature of travel, today’s prompt is about: coming home. As for all the prompts this week it’s better if you select a particular past journey or trip to bear in mind as you write, but you can if you wish write more generally.

What’s it like when you get back?
Are you delighted to be home?
Relieved that the house has burned down while you’re away (or is that just me!!!)?

Travel: transport

Today’s daily blog prompt (and for writers and journallers too!) is still in our weekly topic area of travel.

Modes of transport

What’s your favourite mode of transport? What makes you feel like you’re really on a journey?

I love ferries because they have that definite holiday feel about them. If it was work, I’d be flying, but the ferry trip is part of the holiday….

Travel: getting there

If you’re a scrapbooker you may have piles of photos from holidays and other trips – do they all look alike? It can be difficult to scrap holidays and journeys differently. Follow our journalling prompts this week for seven different ways to write about your holiday.

Today think of a particular holiday – look at the photos if you like, for inspiration, and ask

So what was it like when you got there?

Was it wonderful? Did it disappoint? How did you feel as you moved in?

Travel: the journey

Travelling and journeys is such a big area to write about – and if you’re a journaller or a scrapbooker you’re bound to have notes and/or photos from your past trips.

Dig some out and think not about the PLACE you went to but how you got there. Was the journey exciting? Relaxing? Part of the holiday? Or was it a nightmare, you took 2 days to get Los Angeles, had the meeting, turned round and came home?

Write about the journey and what you remember most.

Travel: the list

Our subject matter for the daily writing prompts this week is travel and today’s writing prompt is about: what you take with you on a journey.

What do you take? What’s essential and what’s not

Here’s some on my list:

An Englishwoman can’t go anywhere without tea, so the first thing I pack is my teabags. Sometimes I’ll pack milk in a thermos to keep it cool and a teapot as well, especially if going abroad where teapots aren’t usual.
I always take a picnic kit too. It’s much cheaper to buy the makings of sandwiches than the made sandwiches, but you invariably need a knife to cut up the bread, and picnic plates, paper napkins etc. are all very useful for a successful family lunch out.
I take a small towel and/or teatowel – someone’s bound to get wet the minute the family goes near the sea or water of any kind
Anti-mosquito spray and suncream are absolutely essential as I react badly if bitten (and am allergic to most antibiotics) and since I got badly sunburned in Pompeii one year, I never tan, just come up in heat bumps, so I need a high factor suncream….

Travel: setting off

Here are more ideas and journal prompts to get you started on your writing. Don’t face a blank screen, use our daily prompts to get your started with writing! Whether you’re a blogger, journaler, scrapbooker or writer, the prompts will get your writing muscles working!

This week’s writing topic is travel and today’s writing prompt is about: setting off

What do you think of when you leave to go on a trip? Excitement, trepidation? I hate packing – I am in the worst temper when I have to pack the day before a holiday or a trip. And I don’t sleep – it used to be excitement, but now I’m the one who’s responsible for all the arrangements I worry that something will go wrong!

Write about setting off on a trip.

Travel: planning

Ever sit there facing the blank page wondering what to write? Or maybe you know what you want to write but somehow you can’t get started? Here’s just what you need, a daily writing prompt that will start you off with your journalling and give you those warm up writing exercises to boost your journal writing

This week’s writing topic is travel and today’s writing prompt is about: planning

Do you like to plan? I do – the going away isn’t the same without the pleasure of weeks o0f planning.

Or do you prefer to just set out and not plan? Why not plan?

Gadgets – best buy

What was the best household gadget you ever acquired? Why was it such a success?

Emotions: enthusiasm

When were you last really enthusiastic about something?

What was it and why did it make you feel enthusiastic?

It was really great to see Robert Kubice win the Canadian Grand Prix - not
that he's a big hero of mine or anything, but it was nice to see someone work
hard and get the result he deserved. In a race that was a big disappointment for Lewis Hamilton fans - because he managed to crash in the pit lane AGAIN, it was also great to see David Coulthard on the winners' rostrum again.

Emotions - wonder

When was the last time you felt a sense of wonder?

Could it be a landscape, or a person - a baby, a loved one - a special musical experience?

Emotions - amusement

Amusement is a great emotion - what made you laugh most recently?

What makes me laugh is...

Colour - the way we see

Colour is not an property of what we are looking at – it is something created in the brain as a result of the way your eyes interpret wavelengths of light. Colour is an invention of the human brain. Without our eyes, there is no such thing as colour – so everything must be in the equivalent of greyscale. Were there aliens, colour might not be one of their senses and they might have an additional sense or completely different senses from our five…

What would it be like to see colours differently? Or not see colour at all?