NaJoWriMo Starts October 1st
Why Participate in NaJoWriMo
30 Day Challenges
Take the NaJoWriMo challenge and develop and maintain a journal writing habit in 30 days.
Personal Growth
Use journal writing for personal enrichment, reaching goals, exploring your creativity, and recording your life as you live it.
Growing Community
Learn how journal writing is a powerful tool and practice for learning, problem-solving, and keeping yourself centered.
Benefits of Journal Writing
Enhance writing skills
Journal writing builds writing fluency and helps you learn to express your thoughts and ideas.
Relieve stress
When you write honestly and pour out your worries, the act of writing can help you process your emotions and what's on your mind.
Boost your memory
Journal writing is a great way to keep track of your experiences, ideas, and daily reactions to what's happening in your world.
Set & attain goals
When you write something down, you become more committed to action. Writing helps you plan and figure out how to reach your goals.
Explore thoughts and ideas
Journal writing is a dialogue with yourself. Without being judged or censored, you can explore your thoughts and ideas about anything you want.
Order Journal Writing Prompts
NaJoWriMo Journal Book for October Theme
Journal prompts for Unleashing Your Creative Mind focus on
- What inspires your creativity?
- What forms of creative expression do you use in your daily life?
- What are the roadblocks to your creativity?
- Finding creative expression in music, novels, photos
- Your past experiences with creative experiences
- How you can be more creative.
On each page of this journal book, prompts appear on the right for easier writing, followed by a blank space on the left.
Order the book today in time for NaJoWriMo October.
October Thematic Email Prompts
One of the ways to participate in NaJoWriMo is to use daily thematic prompts emailed to you throughout October.
- What inspires your creativity?
- What forms of creative expression do you use in your daily life?
- What are the roadblocks to your creativity?
- Finding creative expression in music, novels, photos
- Your past experiences with creative experiences
- How you can be more creative.
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I’ve been journaling and art journaling for over 20 years. I find NaJoWriMo helpful when I’m stumped about what to write, how to dig deeper, and how to face issues I may have avoided — it helps me grow. THANK YOU SO MUCH, NAJOWRIMO — you’ve helped me keep journaling and attached to what I really love.
