The Write Prompt for Any Occasion is a handbook of 108 inventive and psychologically useful prompts, written by Beth Jacobs, a long-standing expert in the therapeutic writing field, and arranged by the 18 topics most often mentioned in journals.
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This small book is the handbook of prompts for journalers. After more than 30 years as a therapist in the journaling field, I have picked the 18 topics people most talk and write about. For each topic, there are six prompts that go beyond the bland or predictable. These beyond-prompts use inventive structures and perspectives to shake your writing loose where it might be stuck. They are fun and easy and automatic awareness-builders.
The 18 Topics in The Write Prompt for Any Occasion are:
~ Meditative Awareness
~ Body Image
~ Mood Regulation
~ Self-Judgment
~ Addiction & Compulsiveness
~ Food & Eating
~ Parenting
~ Family of Origin
~ Friendships
~ Love Relationships
~ Memoir Writing
~ Aging
~ Anger Management
~ Procrastination
~ Money
~ Working
~ Interpersonal Communication
~ Encouraging Creativity
Beth Jacobs, PhD, is a poet, clinical psychologist and life-time journaler. Writing and igniting creativity have been her life’s work. She is the author of Writing for Emotional Balance (New Harbinger Publishers, 2005), Paper Sky: What Happened After Anne Frank’s Diary Ended (CreateSpace, 2014), The Original Buddhist Psychology (North Atlantic Books, 2017), A Buddhist Journal: Practices for Meditators and Writers (North Atlantic Books, 2018), Long Shadows of Practice: poems (Homebound Publications, 2021) and Luminous and Gray: poems (Shanti Arts Publishers, 2025).
Beth has facilitated poetry workshops with school age children, new parents, community workers, and grandparents, and she has seen that writing and poetry are accessible and liberating for everyone in their own way. She is compiling her fourth collection of community poetry from this work and loves witnessing people become authors of their writing and their lives.
"Beth Jacobs’ thoughtful prompts offer one the opportunity to explore a variety of feelings, which may otherwise be buried deep within. I can imagine using them with several groups I facilitate and believe they will lead to meaningful discussions." Merle R. Saferstein
"Beth Jacobs' writing prompts are like hot fudge sundaes (minus the calories): delicious and creative treats, deeply satisfying, and layered with complex and rich flavors. And like sundaes, your eyes will sparkle once you have finished [responding to] it." Ruth Folit, Founder and Past Director of IAJW.
"If I had just ten minutes to write, Beth’s prompts would be the first I’d turn to if I were wondering what should I write? or felt I was tired of the same ol’ way of looking at things and wanted to experience the writer in me that had been a stranger and maybe would just take off the top of my head, as Emily Dickinson said. And if I did half of them, I'd have enough material for ten years!"
Perie Longo, Ph.D., R.P.T.
Emeritus Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, California
Author of Baggage Claim and 3 other books of poetry and former President of the National Association for Poetry Therapy
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