keri smith, creator of "wreck this journal," has created this work in progress. i am using her 100 ideas as a "to do" list for me over an undefined period of time.

• go for a walk & draw or list things you find on the sidewalk
• write a letter to yourself in the future
• buy something inexpensive as a symbol for your need to create (new pen, a tea cup, journal & use it everyday
• draw your dinner
• find a piece of poetry you respond to, rewrite it and glue it into your journal
• glue an envelope into your journal & for one week collect items you find on the street
• expose yourself to a new artist (go to a gallery, or in a book) & write about what moves you about it
• find a photo of a person you do not know & write a brief bio about them
• spend a day drawing only red things
• draw your bike
• make a list of everything you buy in the next week
• make a map of everywhere you went in one day
• draw a map of the creases on your hand (knuckles, palm)
• trace your footsteps with chalk
• record an overheard conversation
• trace the path of the moon in relation to where you live
• go to a paint store & collect 'chips' of all your favorite colors
• draw your favorite tree
• take 15 minutes to eat an orange
• write a haiku
• hang upside down for five minutes
• hang found objects from tree branches
• make a puppet
• create an outdoor room from things you find in nature
• read a book in one day
• illustrate your grocery list
• read a story out loud to a friend
• write a letter to someone you admire
• study the face of someone you do not like
• make a meal based on a color theme (i.e. all white)
• create a museum of very small things
• list the smells in your neighborhood
• list 100 uses for a tin can
• fill an entire page in your journal with small circles & color them in
• give away something you love
• choose an object; draw the side you can't see
• list all of the places you've ever lived
• describe your favorite room in detail
• write about your relationship with your washing machine
• draw all of the things in your purse/bag
• make a mini book based on the theme, "my grocery list"
• create a character based on someone you know & write a list of personality traits
• recall your favorite childhood game
• put postcards of art pieces/painting on the inside of your kitchen cupboard doors, so you can see them every day (but not become deaf to them)
• draw the same object every day for a week
• write in your journal using a different medium (brush & ink, charcoal, old typewriter, crayons, fat markers
• draw the individual items of your favorite outfit
• make a useful item using only paper & tape
• research a celebration or ritual from another culture
• do a temporary art installation using a pad of post it notes & a pen
• draw a map of your favorite sitting spots in your town/city (photocopy it and give it to someone you like)
• record all of the sounds you hear in the course of one hour
• using a grid, collect various textures from magazine and play them off of each other
• cut out all media for one day & write about the effects
• make pencil rubbings of six different surfaces
• draw your garbage
• do a morning collage
• list your ten most important things (not including animals or people)
• list ten things you would like to do every day
• glue a photo of yourself as a child into your journal
• transform some garbage
• write an entry in your journal in really LARGE letters
• collect some 'flat' things in nature (leaves, flowers) & glue or tape them into your journal
• physically alter a page (i.e. cut a hole, pour tea on it, burn it, fold it, etc.)
• find several color combinations you respond to in public; document those using swatches & write where you found them
• write a journal entry describing something "secret" & cut it up into several pieces and glue them back in scrambled
• record descriptions or definitions of subjects or words you are interested in, found in encyclopedias or dictionaries
• draw the outline of an object without looking at the page (contour drawing)
• what were you thinking just now? write it down
• do nothing
• write a list of ten things you could to do & do the last thing on the list
• create an image using dots
• do 3 drawings at different speeds
• put a small object in your left pocket (or in a bag), put your left hand in the pocket & draw it by feel
• create a graph documenting or measuring something in your life
• draw the sun
• create instructions for a simple everyday task
• make prints using food (fruit and vegetables cut in half, fish, etc.)
• find a photo & alter it by drawing over it
• write a letter using an unconventional medium
• draw one object for twenty minutes
• combine two activities that have not been combined before
• write about your day in an encyclopedic fashion (i.e. organize by subject)
• write a list of all the things you do to escape
• cut a random shape out of several layers of a magazine & make a collage out of the results
• write an entry in code
• make a painting using tools from the bathroom
• work with a medium that is subtractive
• write about or draw some of the doors in your life
• make a postcard that has some kind of activity on it
• devise a journal entry using "layers"
• devise an entry using "layers"
• write your own definition of one of the following concepts, sitting, waiting, sleeping (without using the actual word)
• list 10 of your habits
• illustrate the concept of "simplicity"
• write down and complete an idea of your own
• write down and complete an idea of your own
• write down and complete an idea of your own
• write down and complete an idea of your own
• write down and complete an idea of your own