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Bourbon or Digestive? What Your Favourite Biscuit Says About Your Story

Bourbon or Digestive? What Your Favourite Biscuit Says About Your Story

Todays memoir prompt takes us into dangerous territory...biscuit preferences. Remember when someone in your office caused absolute chaos by suggesting that Jaffa Cakes were actually cakes, or that colleague who …

Nerves, Noteworthy: Use Your First-Day Anxiety to Discover Your Story

Nerves, Noteworthy: Use Your First-Day Anxiety to Discover Your Story

I was eleven. I wore a blazer that was too big. "Room to grow into it," Mum said. I stood at the gates of my new secondary school. Everything felt …

Commute Then, Reflect Now: A Journaling Exercise on Time and Terrain

Commute Then, Reflect Now: A Journaling Exercise on Time and Terrain

Think back to your daily commute from a decade ago. It might have been a trip filled with monotony or moments of quiet reflection. Close your eyes and picture it …

Celebrate What You Do Best: A Journal Prompt to Honour Your Strengths

Celebrate What You Do Best: A Journal Prompt to Honour Your Strengths

We are often our own worst critics and it is so easy to focus on what we think we lack or where we feel we fall short. Today we flip …

What Did Sundays Mean to You? A Memoir Prompt About Family Traditions

What Did Sundays Mean to You? A Memoir Prompt About Family Traditions

Sunday meant one thing in our house - the roast dinner ritual. By 10am, the potatoes would be peeling. The Yorkshire pudding batter would be resting. Mum would be consulting …

First Pet Love: A Single Journal Prompt to Spark Joy

First Pet Love: A Single Journal Prompt to Spark Joy

Pets are often our first experience of unconditional love. Was your first pet a dog, cat, hamster, goldfish maybe. Reflect on your relationship with your first pet or one that …

Strawberry Syrup & Mr Whippy: Memoir Prompts from Childhood Summers

Strawberry Syrup & Mr Whippy: Memoir Prompts from Childhood Summers

The sound of an ice cream van is more than just a jingle it is a shortcut to summer fun. A few notes of that cheerful tune and suddenly you …

The Car That Carried You: A Memoir Prompt on Journeys That Mattered

The Car That Carried You: A Memoir Prompt on Journeys That Mattered

My first car was an olive green lump of personality.Beige interior. Sticky patch on the back seat that refused to leave. Mysterious, permanent and slightly worrying.The radio worked only if …

The Teacher Who Believed in Me: A Memoir Prompt

The Teacher Who Believed in Me: A Memoir Prompt

My focus today was all about memories related to school and in particular school teachers that made a difference in my life. Mr. Roberts, Year 5. He wore corduroy jackets …

What We Remember, We Keep: A Memoir Writing Prompt for 2025

What We Remember, We Keep: A Memoir Writing Prompt for 2025

February is well underway. If one of the resolutions you made for the new year was to write more, journal regularly, or finally start that memoir, this is your gentle …

When the Weather Betrayed Us: The 1987 Storm Through Your Eyes

When the Weather Betrayed Us: The 1987 Storm Through Your Eyes

The great storm of '87 is etched in my memory. I woke to the sound of our garden fence performing somersaults down the street. The huge oak tree had stood …

Songs You Loved, Stories You Remember: A Musical Memoir Prompt

Songs You Loved, Stories You Remember: A Musical Memoir Prompt

Remember when your MySpace profile music choice was a serious statement about who you were as a person? If you're anything like me, hearing those old tracks now sends you …