Wreck This Journal: To Create is to Destroy, Now With Even More Ways to Wreck!
Keri Smith's cult favourite returns in a freshly updated edition, and it's every bit as gloriously chaotic as you'd hope. If 'The Artist's Way' is the disciplined mentor guiding you towards creative clarity, this is its reckless, paint-splattered cousin who'd rather you just got on with it and worried less about the mess. Designed for anyone who's started a journal with good intentions only to abandon it by page three, 'Wreck This Journal' takes a wonderfully contrary approach. Rather than encouraging careful, considered entries, Smith invites readers to stab holes through pages, smear coffee across paper, scribble well beyond the margins, and gleefully deface photographs. The whole thing operates on a simple but rather liberating idea: that destruction and creation are not opposites. They're the same thing wearing different clothes. Smith's illustrated prompts are strange in the best possible way. Quirky, funny, occasionally baffling, they nudge you past the paralysis that strikes whenever you face a blank page. Short, punchy instructions sit alongside more expansive creative challenges, keeping the experience feeling genuinely surprising throughout. What makes this journal stick where others don't is its refusal to take artistic preciousness seriously. You're not asked to be good. You're asked to show up, make something, and quite possibly ruin it in the process. For the chronically perfectionistic or the creatively stuck, that permission alone is worth the price of the book.
- Author: Smith Ken
- Publisher: Penguin
- Genre: Literary Fiction
- ISBN: 978-0141976143
- Pages: 224 pages