WARNING : long
- Go for a walk. Draw or list things you find on the the sidewalk.
- Buy something inexpensive as a symbol for your need to create, (new pen, a tea cup, journal). Use it everyday.
- Glue an envelope into your journal. For one week collect items you find on the street.
- Glue an envelope into your journal. For one week collect items you find on the street.
- Make a map of everywhere you went in one day.
- Record an overheard conversation.
- Take 15 minutes to eat an orange.
- Make a puppet.
- Read a book in one day.
- Illustrate your grocery list.
- Write a letter to someone you admire.
- Create a museum of very small things.
- Fill an entire page in your journal with small circles. Color them in.
- Give away something you love. (Good to learn to let go of things.)
- 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)
- 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.) (Good motivation to go out and discover new places.)
- Record all of the sounds you hear in the course of one hour.
- Cut out all media for one day. Write about the effects. (Make your own instead.)
- Draw your garbage.
- List your ten most important things, (not including animals or people.)
- List ten things you would like to do every day.
- 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.)
- 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. (Meant to do that for quite some time. Will use the encyclopedia I bought this summer.)
- Record descriptions or definitions of subjects or words you are interested in, found in encyclopedias or dictionaries.
- Do nothing.
- Write a list of ten things you could to do. Do the last thing on the list.
- Create an image using dots.
- 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.
- Create instructions for a simple everyday task.
- Write an entry in code.
- Write about or draw some of the doors in your life.
100 ideas by Keri Smith
- yearly stats : movies watched / episodes watched / documentaries watched / songs listened to / albums listened to / books read / manga read / comics read / articles read
- events that happened in a randomly chosen year that are interesting
READ.................
- a bestseller from 1990s
- a book where the main character works at your current or dream job
- a locked-room mystery
- a book you have seen on someone bookshelf (in real life, on a zoom call, in a tv show, etc.)
- a book set mostly or entirely outdoors
- a book that was published anonymously
- a book about do-overs or fresh starts
- a book set in a restaurant
- a book by an indigenous author
- a book about a subject you are passionate about
- a book you think your best friend would like (amber and noelle)
- a book about art or an artist
- a book everyone seems to have read but you
- the longest book (by pages) on your tbr list (The Man Without Qualities, Les Misérables, War and Peace)
- the shortest book (by pages) on your tbr list (The Call of Cthulhu, The Waste Land)
- the book on your tbr list with the prettiest cover
- the book on your tbr list with the ugliest cover
- the book that's been on your tbr list for the longest amount of time
- a book from your tbr list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing
- a book from your tbr list chosen at random
- a dnf book from your tbr list
- a book about a writer
- a book about pirates
- a book by a self-published author
- a book from a genre you typically avoid (young adult (</3), romance)
- a book from an animal's pov
- a book originally published under a pen name
- a book set 24 years before you were born
- a book set in a travel destination on your bucket list
- a book set in space
- a book set in the future
- a book set in the snow
- a book set in the future
- a book set in the snow
- a book with a title that is a complete sentence
- a book with an unreliable narrator
- a book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person
- a nonfiction book about indigenous people
- a book about a holiday
- a book published the year you were born
- a book where the main character's name is in the title
- a book set in the decade you were born
- a book with a map
- a book with just text on the cover
- a book about a family
- a book you read more than 10 years ago
- a book you wish you could read for the first time again
- a book by an author with the same initials as you
- a book about the afterlife
- a book set in the 1980s
- a book about witches
- a book that takes place during your favorite season
- a book featuring a man-made disaster
- a book set in Victorian times
- a book about someone leading a double life
- the first book you touched on a shelf with your eyes closed
- a medical thriller
PopSugar reading challenge
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