Wreck This Journal: To Create is to Destroy, Now With Even More Ways to Wreck!

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OR why not have a go at making your OWN JOURNAL? I have two fabulous posts that shows you two different ways of How to Make a Journal: Record your complex feelings about an important event in your life as a list of single-word emotions. Design a visual representation of a moment of enlightenment—the moment something became clear to you.

Create a list of your favorite 'imperfect' characters from literature or movies. What makes them memorable for you?

Create a crayon resist artwork using white crayon for a secret message. Enjoy revealing it with colorful watercolors. This isn’t just a book or a journal, this is a project, an undertaking, a small commitment you have to make with yourself if you are going to complete this.

Write about a time you embraced the messiness and uncertainty of life instead of seeking perfect control. Write a list of emotions you are feeling, then erase all negative ones, taking note of the positive space that remains. Interesting idea. This book is where I developed my belief that one should not treat books one reads with reverence. Let me explain: I am engaged to a man that collects comic books. Now, as a general rule, comics are fairly fragile, being only a few sheets of paper held together with a couple staples. So when he reads them, he holds them delicately, and their spines are never broken. The books are never opened wide, and he lies them down open on his palms, instead of holding each side of the book upright. They are kept in bags with cardboard (all acid free archival quality!) in doing all this, he is ensuring that these comic books will be worth more money in future years. His treatment of them has spread into his treatment of regular novels and bound materials. It then spread to me and I found myself coddling each hardcover I owned and I avoided breaking book spines as much as possible. What I mean by that is, it pushes your boundaries and makes you think of both art and journaling in a different way. It tries to expand the ideas we have established of what we think a journal is. See, it’s not just about someone sitting down to neatly chronicle events and feelings; rather it can be the ultimate form of expression, experimentation of creation, and thought collection!Write about something you often take for granted. Then, brainstorm five ways to make it irrelevant or obsolete. Paint overlapping circles of different sizes, write a different aspect of your life in each and how they intersect. Write a thank-you note to a mistake or failure you experienced and the unexpected lessons it taught you.