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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