- 1) Write out a list of things to do with empty journals
- 2) Start a recipe book for your favorite desserts.
- 3) Glue different things (i.e., flowers, coins, pictures of pineapples) on every page.
- 4) Create a style lookbook (cut out things you like from magazines and stuff)
- 5) Write silly haikus
- 6) Draw faces and practice applying makeup on them
- 7) Draw a picture based off of song lyrics
- 8) Practice your signature
- 9) Make up a cartoon
- 10) Start a personal collection of pick-up lines
- 11) Write a song about writing songs
- 12) Make a list of prompts for a rainy day (or writer’s block)
- 13) Write a letter to someone you hate, but don’t send it. Burn it.
- 17) Draw something without lifting your pen from the paper
- 18) Do an anatomy study
- 19) Draw optical illusions
- 20) Fill up a whole page with spirals (shhh shh don’t ask why it’s just for procrastination)
- 22) Write an essay on art history
- 23) Start a bucket list
- 24) Walk outside and draw or describe the first three things you notice
- 25) Write a journal entry for your favorite character
- 26) Draw a water drop
- 27) Write an extra chapter for your favorite book
- 30) Design a dress
- 33) Pick a line from a classic piece of literature (i.e., anything like Charles Dickens, a religious book, a philosophy piece, Edgar Allen Poe, Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, etc.) and draw a picture that interprets the sentence literally
- 36) Draw one of the Seven Deadly Sins
- 39) Design a robot
- 40) Paint a whole page your favorite color
- 41) Draw clouds
- 42) Write about an accurately awkward, un-romanticized first kiss
- 43) Explore a certain emotion (i.e., anger), focusing on telling the reader what it feels like, looks like, etc.- without explicitly naming it.
- 44) Describe a person using a metaphor or simile
- 45) Draw an anatomically correct brain or heart
- 46) Draw something (flowers, people, trains, anything really) made up of other, smaller things (more flowers, words, cats, anything really)
- 47) Doodle a computer with your eyes closed
- 48) Write something inspired by the concept of a “selfie”
- 55) Use the whole journal to write kind notes to people and leave them anonymously
- 56) Draw one line for every day of the year, and at the end of the year see what sort of picture you’ve made
- 57) Describe your journal, in your journal
- 60) Draw ice
- 61) Describe a character’s eyes without comparing them to a certain body of water
- 62) Finish this sentence: “I am not a god, I do not…”
- 63) Write the script for a mini movie
- 64) Create a flip-through moving picture
- 65) Make a list of your favorite sounds
- 67) Draw a smell
- 68) Cut out pop-up silhouettes
- 77) Practice forging someone’s signature
- 79) Write one thing per day that you love about yourself
- 80) Write out a shopping spree of stuff you would buy if you had exactly $2,789.25 to spend (no more, no less)
- 83) Make a list of 20 things you want to improve about yourself- then do it.
- 85) Make your will (it’s always best to be prepared)
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