Thanks for this topic JonB. Ive just been writing down some of the great ideas that have come up. i think i need to spend a lot more time outside therapy journaling and working on stuff or i ll never get anywhere. these ideas can help me find some direction in that as you say.
usually up to now i write when the mood takes me which is very sporadically and it could be because a thought popped into my head that i havent had before - a thought about anything. maybe a realisation about life in general, how i act, why someone else acts as they do, something about a book im reading that got my brain racing. sometimes i write because im sitting somewhere and looking at something beautiful like the tree outside my window or the ducks in the park or the clouds at sunset or a street lamp in the rain. sometimes i write because whatever emotion im feeling is so powerful its coming up as a creative piece of writing (that doesnt happen too often as i tend to avoid emotions.lol). or i might just write because i remember something and need to get it on paper or to vent or whatever.
hope some of these are of use to you!
biiv