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I don’t know how it is where you are, but around here it’s COLD! Thermometer was reading zero degrees this morning and is struggling to climb into the single digit range. It’s a good morning to snuggle up under a warm blanket or afghan and write in your journal!

Starting a new journal this week? Here are some theme ideas:

A weather extremes journal. Reminisce or give live updates when the weather is doing unusual things. These can be your own stories or your thoughts on unusual weather from other times and places.
A poetry journal. Find and read a poem and then respond to it for your entry.
A descriptive writing journal. Write down your best descriptions of everyday items that engage all five senses. How vivid can you make your writing?

And if your creativity is frozen to the floor, here are some prompts that you can write about this week:

When was the last time you saw a face in some inanimate object? Does that happen to you a lot? Does it have any special meaning for you?
Choose a knickknack that you have in your home, and write the story of how you came into possession of it and why it’s special enough that you keep it around.
What type of weather do you find most soothing? Most exciting? Most interesting? Most frightening? How often do you experience it where you live now?
What was the last television show that you watched all the way through? Why did it keep your interest? Will you watch the next in the series?
Look around your home and find a pile of clutter (c’mon, we all have them somewhere even if they are hidden in a little-used drawer). What’s in the pile? Why is it there?
Choose a memory from your school days and write it down. Did this experience impact your life or was it a mundane sort of an event? Why did the memory stick with you?
Describe your favorite physical sensation in the whole wide world. How often do you get to experience it?

Enjoy!

What pens or pencils do you use to write in your journal? Do you have a favorite, or do you use whatever is handy at the moment? Do you keep a special writing implement just for journaling, like a high-quality pen or pencil, or do you just grab whatever will write?

This week, why not consider adding some colors to your journal? Color is a great tool for expressing yourself-most of us have colors that we associate with warmth, joy, excitement, depression, anxiety or anger. What would happen if you chose the color of your journal entry based on your predominant emotion when you begin writing? The colors could well become signals that give clues to the entry’s content before you even read it.

Some people also color-code their journals according to some pre-determined key. Hopes and dreams may be one color, and accounts of experiences might be a different one. Practical, bright ideas could be green, and fanciful ones might be a delightful shade of pink. Memories might be purple, and musings from deep in your psyche could be blue. It’s completely up to you!

What tools could you use to add color to your journal entries? Well, there are a rainbow of inks in pens available, and there are some delightful fine-point markers that just may fit the bill. Colored pencils offer a wealth of possibilities, too. Crayons, on the other hand, are a bit tougher to write with though a person could certainly do so if they tried. Even highlighting markers might have their place when you want to emphasize some words, phrases or sentences.

And you’re not actually limited to words, either. Some journals (and some people who journal) are actually set up to doodle on one page and write on the facing page. There are many ideas that are more easily expressed in pictures than in words, or perhaps you are one of those people who thinks and communicates in more visual ways.

This week, why not leave the monochrome world behind and add some color to your journal! Experiment! Try new things and you just may find a style or technique that truly reflects who you are deep down inside.

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