Find relationships between ideas and experiences and cultural events. Link your learning in college to your decisions in your personal or professional life. Revision You can also use your journal to reflect on who you are. Read over earlier journal entries and work out how you have changed. Try this writing prompt when you have writer's block.
Most professional writers are magpies.
They collect quotations, overheard conversations, postcards, photographs, newspaper articles and ideas, and then transcribe them into their notebooks. Do the same. Write down a line from a song that you love, or describe a scene in your favorite movie. Or a wild photograph. Make your journal reflect you.