These tips were contributed by readers of my Webseed Site Journalwriters which is now reborn here at Creativenotebook since Webseed closed it's doors.  If you have a tip you'd like to add, please email me at editor@creativenotebook.us.

"My Journaling Basket I would have a wicker basket with a handle loaded with colored gel pens, stickers, journaling books, colored art pencils, and my journals (I have at least five going at a time). My journaling basket and I would be in the perfect sand on a perfect beach on any sort of a day...perfect or not. " -- Joyce

"My journaling tip for the contest: I keep some index cards in my journal so that I can write down what I'm writing about in case I'm interrupted. When I go back to my journal, the short notations I've made jog my memory so I can continue writing where I left off." -- Carol Alaniz of Ecorse

"This is my favorite prompt to jumpstart my journal writing: I read this quote by Samuel Cohen : "Bagel, sun, coffee, a friend... and then some solitude are the flowers of my morning." then I ask myself what were the flowers of my day and I write about them." -- MP Guimond

"One of my favorite writing prompts is taking a quotation that I really disagree with and I can really take off." -- Jean Hughes of Atlanta

"Here is my favorite journaling prompt: If you wrote a letter to yourself that you would read in twenty years, what would you want to tell yourself?" -- Leslie DeHart of Manhattan

"I find that if you keep a few notebooks to journal in your mind is better able to release it's thought. I have my noisey friends can read this notebook journal. I have a passworded one for all the thoughts that I wouldn't dare to share with everyone. Finally, I have a notebook that I carry with me so that I can jot things down when I am forced to wait some where." -- Kattie Hogan

"June Journal Contest - Journal Prompt Make a list of all the things that you are, starting with the very basic and then ending with as much detail as possible. Example: Child of God, Homo Sapien, Female, Daughter of (parents names), Spouse to (spouse's name), Writer, Sister, Friend, etc. This is to help remind you of all the things you are, and help you to stop focusing on all the things you aren't." -- Kathleen Greene of Houston

"My favorite journaling prompt is my "picture file". Any magazine that I buy, I cut out all the great photographs that appeal to me, and put them into a file. When I need some inspiration, I just start going through the pictures until one of them inspires me to write. Great website, keep up the good work!" -- anita of Pratt

"My favorite "prompt" is to observe my surroundings and write descriptions of where I am, how I'm feeling, and what's currently happening. Even if it's something kind of mundane, I challenge myself to make it seem interesting on paper. (A good example of this is "'Love' In A Library", under "Bursts of Expression" at my site: http://www.suite101.com/myhome.cfm/JHImaginations)" -- Jenny Higgins

"In my window, I see..." -- keri

"Dig out those old pictures -- of YOU -- at various ages and stages! Were you smiling? Are pleasant memories conjured up by the image? Do you see the "real" you in this photo? How far away are you today from the person in that photo? Are those your "good old days"? A recent search for photos of my parents ... their wedding in particular (to give to my daughters) ... brought an unexpected flood of memories as I rummaged through the boxes and saw myself ~ infant and toddler, in kindergarden, eighth grade, high school, prom ... ad infinitum! Journaling/scrapbooking/memoir treasures! " -- Gloria of Lake Geneva

"Prompt Contribution: What is the purpose of change in your life? How do you tend to react to change? " -- NJHeart2Heart

"I was travelling on a bus one day when the driver refused to stop for an old lady who wanted to get on. My friend and I watched her as she walked, with a stick, as fast as she was able, waving to him to stop, all whilst trying to find a safe place to cross the road to the bus stop. I will never forget the look of sheer dismay on her face as the bus pulled away without her. What have you seen that you will never forget? Who did you meet today?" -- Romany of Stoke on Trent

"Think of the four elements -- earth, wind, fire, and water. Describe youself as one of the elements and list all the attributes of you and the element. " -- Sue

"If you could spend a day in conversation with one person, living or dead, who would it be? What would you talk about?" -- Margaret H. Knorr of Charleston

"I have always wanted to.........." -- Valerie Bongards of Potsdam

"If you could travel back to your childhood, as the adult you are now, and meet your childhood self, what age would that child be and what would you say or do with your child self? Or would you rather not make the trip? " -- Trisha aka Floradora

"Freewrite about your worst fear. Set a timer for ten minutes and do not lift your pen from the paper until it goes off." -- Journal Writers

" Draw up a list of things that make you happy. (This is an ongoing project.) Your list can be of things as large as your marriage or children or surviving cancer and finding strength, or as small as the yawn of a cat. Focus on HAPPY for this list. This can be a series of prompts for those days when you feel blank. " -- Nan

"If I could, I would......." -- Journal Writers

"What scares you? Explore your fears in a journal entry. Start with the sentence "I'm afraid......" It doesn't have to be something we consider traditionally frightening, like snakes or spiders." -- Journal Writers

"Take the time to notice one small detail in nature. Study a flower, leave, tree trunk, movement of a bird, etc. Write your observations in your journal. Often we are too busy with the big picture to enjoy the small beauties in life." -- Dorene Davis