Theme: Unleashing Your Creativity

About This Theme

Note: if you're using this theme for a NaJoWriMo October Challenge, you can wait to purchase the theme on September 30th to receive your first prompt on October 1st. Otherwise, you can start using this theme anytime you want.

The theme for these 30 days of prompts is about the power of creativity in your personal life. Many of us don’t explore and use our creative energy unless we’re fiction writers, painters, poets, songwriters, graphic designers, or some other type of artist. The older we get, the more disconnected we become from our creative side. But we all have creative abilities, even if we don’t know how to paint, draw, or write stories. 

For journal writing, this theme is a mixture of prompts that invite you to reflect on your thoughts, ideas, and experiences about creativity and use a creative expression in your journal writing. 

If you work through these prompts, you will discover more about yourself and reconnect to some of the creative energy you may have lost as you grew up. 

NaJoWriMo Creator

Bakari Chavanu is the creator of the National Journal Writing Month project. He's a full-time blogger and author of Starting From Day One: Using the Day One Journaling App to Record and Enrich Your Life. 

Testimonials 

I've definitely been enjoying my first experience with NaJoWriMo! I didn't realize what a rut my journaling had fallen into until I started working with the daily prompts for this October theme.  I've discovered unexpected advantages as well. I write fiction but recently entered the genre arena of creative nonfiction/essays.  The NaJoWriMo prompts have helped me loosen up the scholastic ultra-formality I learned for essay writing long ago in school.

Thanks, Bakari!  I'm already looking forward to the next NaJoWriMo!

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Thank you, Bakari, for commenting on my first entry of the #NaJoWriMo! And yes, you are right, there was ”more creativity” within me than I first thought once I sat down with the question of the initial prompt.

Will use the prompts to spark new blog posts, but possibly spread them out more than on a daily basis! 

 --HERO — the coach (http://herothecoach.com/2015/10/02/day-1-najowrimoprompt-describe-your-creative-side/)

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Too often, my journal devolves into something more like a record of daily events rather than creative expressions or inner explorations. This will be the first time I've worked with prompts for a guided journaling experience. Looking forward to it. :)