I know you're there. You talk to your computer, your nightstand, your stuffed dog. Then you alphabetically organize your refrigerator. Well, I've got the solution. From my FAVORITE book, Wreck This Journal, and here, comes a revolutionary to solution to your boredom. THE GRAND MASTER AWESOMELY AMAZING BOREDOM-BUSTING SPIFFINGLY MAGICAL GRAND MASTER LIST!!!!!!! Here it is ladies and gentlemen (with a couple of my own):1. Go for a walk. Draw or list things you find on the the sidewalk.
2. Write a letter to yourself in the future.
3. Buy something inexpensive as a symbol for your need to create, (new pen, a tea cup, journal). Use it everyday.
4. Draw your dinner.
5. Find a piece of poetry you respond to. Rewrite it and glue it into your journal.
6. Glue an envelope into your journal. For one week collect items you find on the street.
7. Expose yourself to a new artist, (go to a gallery, or in a book.) Write about what moves you about it.
8. Find a photo of a person you do not know. Write a brief bio about them.
9. Spend a day drawing only red things.
11. Make a list of everything you buy in the next week.
12. Make a map of everywhere you went in one day. 13. Draw a map of the creases on your hand, (knuckles, palm)
14. Trace your footsteps with chalk.
15. Record an overheard conversation.
16. Trace the path of the moon in relation to where you live.
17. Go to a paint store. Collect 'chips' of all your favorite colors. 18. Draw your favorite tree.
19. Take 15 minutes to eat an orange.
20. Write a haiku.
21. Hang upside down for five minutes.
22. Hang found objects from tree branches.
23. Make a puppet.
24. Create an outdoor room from things you find in nature.
25. Read a book in one day.
26. Illustrate your grocery list.
27. Read a story out loud to a friend.
28. Write a letter to someone you admire.
29. Study the face of someone you do not like.
30. Make a meal based on a color theme. (i.e. all white).
31. Create a museum of very small things.
32. List the smells in your neighborhood.
33. List 100 uses for a tin can.
34. Fill an entire page in your journal with small circles. Color them in.
35. Give away something you love.
36. Choose an object, draw the side you can't see.
37. List all of the places you've ever lived.
38. Describe your favourite room in detail.
39. Write about your relationship with your washing machine.
40. Draw all of the things in your purse/bag.
41. Make a mini book based on the theme, "my grocery list". 42. Create a character based on someone you know. Write a list of personality traits.
43. Recall your favorite childhood game.
44. Put postcards of art pieces/painting on the inside of your kitchen cupboard doors, so you can see them everyday (but not become deaf to them.)
45. Draw the same object every day for a week.
46. Write in your journal using a different medium (brush & ink, charcoal, old typewriter, crayons, fat markers.)
47. Draw the individual items of your favorite outfit.
48. Make a useful item using only paper & tape.
49. Research a celebration or ritual from another culture.
50. Do a temporary art installation using a pad of post it notes & a pen.
51. Draw a map of your favorite sitting spots in your town/city. (photocopy it and give it to someone you like.)
52. Record all of the sounds you hear in the course of one hours.
53. Using a grid, collect various textures from magazine and play them off of each other. 54. Cut out all media for one day. Write about the effects.
55. Make pencil rubbings of six different surfaces.
56. Draw your garbage.
58. List your ten most important things, (not including animals or people.)
59. List ten things you would like to do every day. 60. Glue a photo of yourself as a child into your journal.
61. Trasform some garbage.
62. Write an entry in your journal in really LARGE letters.
63. Collect some 'flat' things in nature (leaves, flowers). Glue or tape them into your journal.
64. Physically alter a page. (i.e. cut a hole, pour tea on it, burn it, fold it, etc.)
65. Find several color combinations you respond to in public. Document them using swatches, write where you found them.
66. Write a journal entry describing something "secret". Cut it up into several pieces and glue them back in scrambled.
67. Record descriptions or definitions of subjects or words you are interested in, found in encyclopedias or dictionaries.
68. Draw the outline of an object without looking at the page. (contour drawing).
69. What were you thinking just now? write it down.
70. Do nothing.
71. Write a list of ten things you could to do. Do the last thing on the list.
72. Create an image using dots.
73. Do 3 drawings at different speeds.
74. Put a small object in your left pocket (or in a bag), Put your left hand in the pocket. Draw it by feel.
75. Create a graph documenting or measuring something in your life.
78. Make prints using food. (fruit and vegetables cut in half, fish, etc.)
79. Find a photo. Alter it by drawing over it.
80. Write a letter using an unconventional medium.
81. Draw one object for twenty minutes.
82. Combine two activities that have not been combined before.
83. Write about your day in an encyclopedic fashion. (i.e. organize by subject.)
84. Write a list of all the things you do to escape.
85. Cut a random shape out of several layers of a magazine. Make a collage out of the results. 86. Write an entry in code.
87. Make a painting using tools from the bathroom.
88. Work with a medium that is subtractive.
89. Write about or draw some of the doors in your life.
90. Make a postcard that has some kind of activity on it.
91. Divise a journal entry using "layers".
92. Divise an entry using "layers".
93. Write your own definition of one of the following concepts, sitting, waiting, sleeping (without using the actual word.)
94. List 10 of your habits.
95. Illustrate the concept of "simplicity".
96. Go to the dentist.
97. Clean out your fridge.
98. Wash the windows.
99. Feed the mice under your bed.
100. Read the entire works of Proust.
101. Arrange your food alphabetically
102. Conduct a scientific experiment on polymer synthesis and its affect on the world.
103. Arrange envelopes according to size.
104. Count how many sheets of paper are in your possession.
105. Make sure that all of your socks have partners.
106. Document your pocket lint.
107. Call your mother back. (Wink Wink)
108. Learn a new language.
109. Take a video of yourself sleeping.
110. Move your furniture around to look like a bus station.
111. Experiment with new types of sitting.
112. Jog in place for 2 hours and 32 minutes.
113. Pretend you are a secret agent.
114. Draw a fake door on your wall with chalk.
115. Talk with your animal neighbors. (That means you, Mr. Food Stealing Squirrel)
116. Write a speech for when you win an award.
117. Walk somewhere as slow as physically possible without stopping.
118. Write a positive feedback letter to the mail deliverer.
119. Put a secret letter in a library book.
120. Practice strengthening your pinky.
121. Dress up like your favorite author.
122. Smell your nose.
123. Memorize The Elements of Style by Strunk and White.
124. Sit on your front porch with a sign that reads "Tweet if you love birds."
125. Document plants that have made a significant difference in your life.
126. Smell your computer.
127. Pretend to be a famous astronaut.
128. Wonder why you read this thing.
129. Loudly proclaim "Hey!" for no reason and test different inflictions on the word.
There you go. You just wasted a LOT of time.
Thank you.
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