These journal prompts for October will get your creative juices flowing and help you keep up with your journaling practice. Make sure to keep scrolling to the end to get your free printable journal prompts cheatsheet and October journal pages for US letter and Happy Planner sizes! These journal writing prompts will help you get past “not knowing” what to say and allow you to start journaling right away instead of spending all your time wondering what to write about. Grab your free printable October journal pages and start your journaling practice today! This post may include affiliate links which means I may earn a commission on qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you.
Why you should use journaling prompts
These journaling prompts for October remove the “blank page fear” that keeps too many people from journaling. Just respond to the prompt however you’d like. Maybe you want to write simple bullet points, or maybe you want to write complete sentences. The choice is yours! If you scroll Instagram, you may feel like you can’t journal if you’re not an incredible artist with beautiful handwriting. I’m here to tell you that isn’t true. Plus I’m going to let you in on a secret: those beautiful, perfect photos took a lot of work, and possibly several drafts. How do I know this? My brother-in-law has amazing calligraphy, but he does a draft and recopies things when he wants them to look nice. He literally even recopies his own journal entries sometimes so they look their best! You don’t even need a fancy name brand notebook to get started - grab the free printable October journal pages at the bottom of the post, print them out, and get writing today! If you like the designs, be sure to check out these free printable planner pages for October because they match. =) If you’re new to journaling, you may want to hold yourself accountable by grabbing a free printable habit tracker.
Daily writing prompts for October
You can journal on these prompts in your favorite notebook or keep scrolling to download free printable journal pages for October with a prompt already written on each day’s page. Grab a mug of something warm to drink, light a candle, and get ready to journal!
Daily October journal writing prompts
Free printable October journal pages
Let’s take a look at the free October journal page printables. The journal includes:
A cover page (it matches these free printable October planner pages)31 days of lined journal pages with a writing prompt for each day3 lined pages with no prompt for extra writing spaceA “cheatsheet” with all 31 prompts at a glance
The journal is available in both US letter and Happy Planner size. The cheatsheet is only in letter size, but it can be printed at 83% and trimmed down to fit in your Happy Planner (the font will be pretty small, though!) The Happy Planner journal pages have been carefully scaled to ensure the design fills the pages, the lines are big enough to write in, and the journal prompt font is large and easy to read. Make sure to print your Happy Planner pages at actual/100% size. Some printers will try to automatically scale it up to “fit” the page. I recommend printing journal pages on premium printer paper so your ink doesn’t easily feather and bleed. And, of course, you’ll need a paper trimmer and Happy Planner hole punch for the HPC sized printables. You can catch a glimpse inside the October journal this video: These pages are for personal and classroom use. This includes use with Scout groups, therapy clients, homeschool co-ops, etc. You are welcome to print and use them as many times as you’d personally like, but please do not share the files or printouts with others for their own use outside of activities you’re organizing. You will need to unzip the compressed file to access your PDFs. Many computers already have a file extraction tool installed (it’s free on every Mac out of the box). For Windows, you can download the program 7zip for free or or use EzyZip to decompress files online for free.
