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Well October sure got here fast! And with it another monthly journaling prompt. I do hope you will play along. Please note that my prompts, so far, seem to have quite a bit writing, but that does not mean you cannot create an artful spread in response to it.

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I recently took a creative writing class from Colleen Houck and we did an exercise of first lines. We also discussed cliff hanger chapter endings... both of these got me thinking, I have been playing around with story ideas in my head, but I also started thinking about the story of my life, the story I am living. These thoughts spurred the idea for this month's be.prompted.

Write a first line of your story (your life), something to grab the readers attention and want to know more. Next, write a chapter ending of where you are now, before what comes next - something that makes the reader (or even yourself) want to turn the page right away to see what happens.

My be.prompted.1 Journal Spread

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I just finished reading Dr. Brene Brown's book, The Gifts of Imperfection, (which I highly recommend) and came across an exercise that I wanted to try:

Create an Ingredients for Joy + Meaning List. List out specifics conditions that are in place when everything feels good in your life.

The last couple of weeks I have been working in a moleskine, not using much ephemera or tape, etc. I have been asking myself a lot of contemplative questions and find I have been doing a lot more writing then usual. Really it ebbs and flows, and I am already feeling the tide turning back to more artsy pages. Regardless, this be.prompted was done in the more writing mode.

I started this prompt out by stating what the prompt was, and then created a list of the things that on my ingredients and joy list. I actually started the spread on the left hand side, then moved to the right... come to think of it do this quite often. Once I had my list down, I played on the 'be.prompted" and summarized each list item (or in one case, 2 list items) in to an action - for example, 'be.true' and 'be.creative'. These I listed on the left hand side of the spread and elaborated on how I can work to get these things to be prominent in my life.

Did you have time to do the prompt? I would love to see your spread!

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I thought that it would be fun to start offering a monthly journal prompt - the beginning of each month, I will post a prompt, and then at some point in the month, show you what I did with it. And I would also love to see what you do with it as well. These prompts will be lighter (well, not as involved at least) then the ones you see in my e-courses, but still fun and thought provoking as well. Sometimes I will come up with them, or see them elsewhere and want to share them...

I am going to call it be.prompted and I do hope you will play along! I even created a flickr group (which at this time is empty) that can be filled with both my and your response spreads.

So, no better time to start then at the beginning of the month...

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I just finished reading Dr. Brene Brown's book, The Gifts of Imperfection, (which I highly recommend) and came across an exercise that I wanted to try:

Create an Ingredients for Joy + Meaning List. List out specifics conditions that are in place when everything feels good in your life.

Ready. Set. Go!