Titles - slang

This week's writing and journalling prompts are about titles.

Can you write starting with a title that is a piece of local slang or traditional terminology?

Pearly princess
Yorkshire Pudding
Angel of the North

Titles – quotes

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

Today - use a saying or quotation

"It's not the days in your life that count, but the life in your days."

Titles – similes

This week's journal prompts for writers and scrapbookers are about titles. Today, why not start your writing with a simile - a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by ‘like’ or ‘as’:

Shine brightly like the star you are!

Titles – inspired by definitions

This week's writing and journalling prompts are about Titles of various kinds.

Today – be inspired by a definition - look up a word in the dictionary – or here’s one to get you started.

Accomplish (ac·com·plish ) 1. to succeed in doing or achieving something 2.
reach point in time: to arrive at the end of a period of time

Try to create your own definition for a strong word such as an emotion - add to the definition with a thoughtful extra that is more feeling than definition.

Titles – inspiration from literature

This week's prompts for writing and journaling are about Titles.

Here is inspiration from Shakespeare, no less! Romeo and Juliet…

What’s in a name?

Titles – inspiration from TV

This week we’re writing in our journals and scrapbooks about Titles.

Today - take inspiration from the TV

Top Gear

Titles – not quite puns

Simple writing and journalling prompts this week: titles

Create a piece of writing or a layout.

Rules of engagement

Computers – the internet

This week's writing and journalling prompts are about computers.

What are your favourite websites and why?

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Create a LO about one of your favourite scrapping websites and what it has taught you about scrapping. Use a screenshot as your central feature.

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Computers – the future

This week's writing topic and journal prompts are about computers.

What kind of computer would you like to have in future? How do you think computers will change?

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Create a minibook about all the different aspects of computers and their use.

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Computers – typography

This week's journal prompts for writers and scrapbookers are about computers.

Today – experiment – take a poem and display or print it out in different fonts, sizes and colours if you can. Download some new fonts. Does using different fonts make a difference to how you read? To how you write? Take a piece of your own writing and play with the font/print settings.

Does it inspire you in different ways?

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Create a LO heavily focused on typography

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Computers – peripherals

This week's writing and journalling prompts are about computers of all kinds.

Today - write about the peripherals you have – do you like your keyboard? Is your screen big enough? What peripherals would you like to have?

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Create a LO entitled “Through the screen”.

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Computers - wordprocessing

This week's prompts for writing and journaling are about computers.

Do you prefer to write on the computer, using a word processor – or do you prefer to write with pen and paper? Compare and contrast…

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Use your journalling in your word processor and create a neat piece of text with various fonts that you can use as a journalling spot in a layout. Alternatively, create a beautifully handwritten piece and use it in a layout!

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Computers – my first computer

This week we’re writing in our journals and scrapbooks about computers.

Describe your first encounter with computers? When was it? Was it a success?

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Create a LO about your computer.

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Computers – software

This week's writing and journalling prompts are about computers.

First – what software do you find essential on your computer? Or do you hate to use one at all?

Why?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO about your favourite software.

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Groups - events

This week's writing and journalling prompts are about groups.

Have you been in any large groups at organized events?

Write about the experience of being in a large group.

How did you get to know the others in your group?

Did the group come together well or were there frictions?

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Create a LO about an event when you or a family member were part of a large group.

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Groups – heritage

This week's writing topic and journal prompts are about groups.

Over the years you have probably been in groups at various celebration events, weddings, family occasions.

Pick one that stands out in your memory and write as much as possible about the event.

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Create a heritage LO about a wedding or other special occasion, focusing on the group rather than just the bride and groom.

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Groups – uniformed groups

This week's journal prompts for writers and scrapbookers are about groups.

Have you or a child of yours ever been a member of a uniformed organisation such as a marching band, the scouts or brownies? Write about the organisation and what it meant to you or them.

What kind of events took place during membership?

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Create a LO about a uniformed group.

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Groups – pop groups

This week's writing and journalling prompts are about groups of all kinds.

Today – pop groups – or your favourite music group anyway. Have you ever met them?

Describe the encounter. If you haven’t met them write about what the encounter would be like.

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Create a LO about a favourite music or pop group.

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Groups of objects

This week's prompts for writing and journaling are about groups.

Today the prompt is to write about a group of objects.

Pick a group of objects that mean something to you. Objects that are part of your daily life, or perhaps part of a treasured collection. Or even objects you can’t get away from.

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Create a LO about a collection of objects.

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Groups – family groups

This week we’re writing in our journals and scrapbooks about groups.

Write about your family group.

How big is it? Does it include just your nuclear family or are there lots of relatives in an extended family?

How do you come together and when? Who do you like to see at family get-togethers?

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Create a LO about the people in your family group.

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