Wreck This Journal (Black) Expanded Edition: To Create Is to Destroy

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Smith’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Wired, and Time magazine. She has also been interviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered and CBC’s Spark. The book took two years to complete, and Smith worked with a variety of different mediums and materials to create the activities. The app has even had a mention in O, the Oprah Winfrey magazine and been nominated best non-fiction app at Digital Book World Conference in New York January 2012.

There are also some instructions that are more difficult to follow, such as “draw a figure eight until your arm falls off” or “make a list of all the things that are wrong with this book”. The point of the book is to encourage people to be creative and to experiment with different mediums. There are no rules or guidelines, and the book itself is meant to be destroyed. No, you can use whatever supplies you have on hand such as pencils, markers, crayons, or even household items like rubber bands or coffee grounds. 6. Is it okay to make mistakes?

This week, I gave the “journal” to my niece who turned 13 years old. I knew she would either react with rapture or complete apathy. Fortunately for my aspirations to be a cool aunt, she loved it. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”– Albert Schweitzer

Ensure their journal is private: If a child is scared their words or pictures will hurt someone, or get them into trouble, they won’t be honest. That child will need to know their journal is a safe space before recording things with confidence.Plus, having a journal that looks special or different from notebooks will lessen the chance of it accidentally being thrown away. Drawing Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”– Winston S. Churchill

Keri Smith was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1977. She start writing and illustrating at an early age, and her work has been published in magazines and newspapers around the world. She currently lives in London, England. You can keep the completed journal as a memento or display it in your home. You can also choose to share it on social media to inspire others. Closing: Draw a picture using your non-dominant hand, paying attention to the way it feels different than using your dominant hand. Write a letter to yourself, giving yourself encouragement and motivation to overcome your fears and anxieties.

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Look in the mirror and document the process of aging through your facial features as if they told a story. Look for an everyday object in your house and describe it as an artifact from an alien civilization.

Paste a photograph and layer it with various transparent papers, then scribble your thoughts on them. Record your emotions throughout the day and assign a color to each one. Create a color map of your day.

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