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Wreck This Journal

by Keri Smith

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ISBN13: 9780399533464
ISBN10: 039953346x
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For anyone who's ever wished to, but had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes Wreck This Journal, an illustrated book that features a subversive collection of prompts, asking readers to muster up their best mistake- and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book (and destroy them).

Acclaimed illustrator Keri Smith encourages journalers to engage in "destructive" acts-poking holes through pages, adding photos and defacing them, painting with coffee, and more-in order to experience the true creative process. Readers discover a new way of art and journal making-and new ways to escape the fear of the blank page and fully engage in the creative process.

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For anyone who has had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal comes this illustrated book that features a subversive collection of prompts, asking readers to muster up their best mistake- and mess-making abilities.
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About the Author

Keri Smith is the author of the popular weblog Wish Jar Journal, which attracts 8,000 readers daily, Living Out Loud, and Tear Up This Book. She’s illustrated for the Washington Post, New York Times, Ford Motor Company, People, The Body Shop, and Hallmark. She lives in Canada.
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grantandannette, May 17, 2011 (view all comments by grantandannette)
I have purchased 4 copies of "Wreck This Journal" for family members who wanted in on the fun. The prompts are creative and good fun. Mine now has doodles, lists, stickers from fruit, mailing labels, chocolate wrappers, colored sketches of garden and trellis plans, verses, short poems, wordplays, four-leaf clovers, and paint chips overstuffing and decorating its covers. My daughter threw hers down 5 floors in a stairwell twice on the way to her doctor's appt. She had to retrieve it each time and it made her laugh to be so silly. The journal suggests that you abuse it a little. We would all recommend this "journal."
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nielserikaarvig, January 16, 2011 (view all comments by nielserikaarvig)
Funny creative and a lot of humor.
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chauceriangirl, February 25, 2009 (view all comments by chauceriangirl)
For someone who's stuck in a creative rut, this may just be the solution. Filled with rather unusual creative prompts, this book will encourage you to do such bizarre things as taste the page, spill/spit/make coffee rings on the page, rip out a page, put it in a pocket and wash it, then put it back into the book. It's fun. Seriously fun. I mean kid making mud pies or scribbling on the walls fun.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780399533464
Author:
Smith, Keri
Publisher:
Perigee Trade
Subject:
Composition & Creative Writing - General
Subject:
Smith, Keri
Subject:
Creativity
Subject:
Composition & Creative Writing
Subject:
Reference/Writing
Copyright:
2007
Edition Description:
Mass Market
Publication Date:
20070605
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
from 12
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
192
Dimensions:
8.11x5.46x.55 in. .53 lbs.
Age Level:
from 18
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