Write Your Life

A creative journaling guide filled with prompts, writing exercises, and inspiration for exploring the story only you can tell.

Have you ever wanted to keep a journal but didn't know where to begin? Or perhaps you've been writing for years and need fresh ideas to open new doors?

Write Your Life: Guided Prompts for Creative Journaling Adventures is an inviting guidebook for journal keepers, memoir writers, poets, teachers, creative writing students, and anyone seeking a deeper connection to memory, imagination, and self-discovery.

Author and longtime writing teacher Katya Taylor, M. Ed. draws on decades of experience leading journaling, memoir, poetry, and creative arts workshops to offer a rich collection of prompts and techniques that help writers explore the landscape of their own lives.

Inside, you'll find creative writing prompts and journal exercises for:

• Getting started when the page feels blank
• Exploring memories, milestones, and turning points
• Writing about dreams, fantasy, and personal mythology
• Using dialogue, unsent letters, lists, and stream of consciousness
• Trying poetry, haiku, collage, seed cards, and writing stimuli
• Setting goals and envisioning new possibilities
• Starting a Write Your Life journal group
• Creating a literary review or sharing student writing

Gentle, practical, imaginative, and deeply encouraging, Write Your Life is both a writing companion and a creative self-discovery tool. It can be used alone, in classrooms, in writing circles, in memoir groups, in healing arts workshops, or anywhere people gather to tell the truth of their lives.

Whether you want to preserve memories, develop a daily journaling habit, spark your creativity, write personal essays, begin a memoir, or simply listen more closely to your own inner voice, this book offers a full deck of possibilities.

Pick a prompt. Open a page. Begin where you are.

Your life is waiting to be written.