Journal Prompts for Home

1. 1 Describe your home as it is right now: not the idealised version, but the real one, tonight.
2. 2 What room or corner of your home feels most like yours? What makes it so?
3. 3 Write about the home you grew up in. What do you remember about how it smelled, sounded, felt?
4. 4 What does home mean to you: is it a place, a person, a feeling, or something else?
5. 5 Describe an object in your home that holds a story. What would you save in a fire?
6. 6 How does your home change between morning and evening? What does the nighttime version feel like?
7. 7 Is there something about your living space that quietly bothers you? What would you change?
8. 8 Write about a time you felt homesick. What were you really missing?
9. 9 How do you make a new place feel like home? What rituals or objects do you need?
10. 10 What sounds does your home make at night: the creaks, the hum of appliances, the silence?
11. 11 Describe the view from your favourite window. What do you see, and what do you feel when you look?
12. 12 How does the state of your home reflect the state of your mind?
13. 13 Write about a home you have left behind. Do you ever visit it in your memory?
14. 14 What would a stranger learn about you just by walking through your home?
15. 15 Who is welcome in your home, and are there people you keep at the threshold?
16. 16 How has your idea of home changed as you have moved through different stages of life?
17. 17 What would make your home feel more like a sanctuary?
18. 18 Write about the ritual of coming home at the end of the day. What do you do first?
19. 19 As night falls, what does your home offer you that nowhere else can?

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