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Submissive Journal Prompts for times when you need some help formulating your thoughts. Please feel free to use these to blog about when you are at a loss for words, you can cross post these to any site or list you feel can use them. I’d like it if you put a link back to where you got them from so that other people can find them. Thank you!

Week of March 10th

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires” -Shakespeare, MacBeth
“When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.” -Anne Rice, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
“Without discipline, there’s no life at all.” -Katharine Hepburn
“The heart is the temple wherein all [...]

Week of March 3rd

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“To have such clarity you must lead a disciplined life. Only then will you know that any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do. But your decision to keep on the path or [...]

Week of February 25th

From Kindlings: Is full disclosure expected in your relationship? How do you find it easiest to share the aspects of yourself that you normally would keep deep down inside? Do you ever find yourself wanting to censor yourself, and how do you move past that urge?
“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take [...]

Week of February 18th

Have you been through some form of orgasm training? This could be restriction or cum on command training or perhaps erotic hypnosis?
“Do not be like servants who serve their masters expecting to receive a reward; be rather like servants who serve their master unconditionally, with no thought of reward.” -Antigonus of Sokho
What part of your [...]

Week of February 11th

Do you and your owner celebrate Valentine’s Day? What do you plan on doing this year? Do you bring elements of your dynamic into your celebration in the form of ritual, symbolism or play?
“The black dress seemed excessively revealing—because it was astonishing to discover that the lines of her shoulder were fragile and beautiful, and [...]

Week of February 4th

“It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.” -Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
Do you believe in soul mates? How do you define a soul mate? Is your owner your soul mate?
What does the phrase, “You complete me” or “S/He completes me” means to you?
Is it possible to be in a [...]

Week of January 28th

Do you crave structure in your life, or are you more of a ‘go with the flow’ sort of person?
Do you believe that owners owe their charges honesty? Are the slaves entitled to full disclosure of everything regarding their owner?
“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, [...]

Week of January 21st

How do you define “service”?
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
Have you discussed the possibility of death, long term disability or illness with the person you serve? How have you addressed [...]

Week of January 14th

Do you ever experience burnout? How do you handle it? Do you take measures to avoid it?
Do you find that you find security in your ownership dynamic? Is this something you find outside of your collar?
“The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.” -Sir Alexander [...]

Weekof January 7th

“There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.” -Richard Bach
If you have set resolutions for this year, how do you plan to apply yourself [...]