Wondering What to Write in Your Writer's Notebook?

Here are five possibilities:

1. Find an object that's important to you. Describe every detail of it. Tell the story of how it came to be important to you.
2. Take a line for a walk; find a book that you like and copy down a line from the book (make sure to say where it came from!). Use that line to make up your own story or poem.
3. Draw a doodle of an island. Name the features. Tell an adventure story about the island.
4. Go outside. Sit quietly for five minutes. Describe every sound that you just heard.
5. Tell a family story. Think about the stories that your family likes to tell over and over. Choose one and write it down (remember to only tell stories that are yours to tell. A particularly embarrassing story about a sibling is probably not the best choice).

And if those don't work, try going to this First Line website and see if it's useful for you.