Wreck This Journal: To Create is to Destroy, Now With Even More Ways to Wreck!

This journal is such a refreshing break from traditional notebooks. Every page gives you a new, quirky prompt that pushes you to be messy, creative and a bit rebellious in the best way. It’s a great outlet for stress because you’re encouraged to scribble, tear, splash and experiment without worrying about perfection. It really helps unlock creativity and makes you enjoy the process rather than the result.

Lots of fun and definitely helps to overcome perfectionism

I purchased this book along with Mess by Keri Smith on recommendation from a friend who had several of her books. I have been struggling for some time with obsessive compulsive disorder, but in the sense of organization and perfection. I have accepted its a bit of a problem and would like to feel more comfortable about life's imperfections. My friend is a psychology student and suggested it as a way to intentionally force myself to create something that really isn't perfect. I had a good look through the book, cringing a bit at some of the things It was asking me to do. (cut through the book, stick gum or glue in it, draw lines and smear them etc etc). You dont have do to the book in any particular order, but I started on the first page, which was putting your name in it. It asks you to write your name in white, illegibly, in tiny letters, backwards, faintly and in large letters, which I did. After several random pages (feeling well good about myself how neat it still was) I showed it to my friend, who turned it to a page directing that I allow someone to do something destructive to the book (and not look). When I opened my eyes, my friend had dunked the side of the book in black coffee!!! Needless to say, I was not impressed. After some discussion about it, I started to look at it differently. If I could obsessively destroy the book as instructed, I could learn to love something for its imperfections. One thing my friend suggested to me is keeping it for my son for when hes older, as there are little things I have collected in it, my thoughts and even unfinished, I feel is an accurate depiction of my personality, rather than little quirks I have of wanting to be neat and tidy, which is something my son sees everyday. It is something I have let me see and see me do, so that he knows that I am working to be less obsessive about cleanliness and a bit more spontaneous. Ive allowed him to help me, but have explained to him that we only write in this book! Even if you don'g have some sort of obsession with being neat and tidy, I think the book is quite fun. I reckon it would be great to take on holiday (although depending on where you go and live it could get taken away in customs as you're supposed to put dirt and leaves and flowers and such in it!) The book is now a permanent fixture in my handbag, and rather than doing what is all too common nowadays looking around on a train or bus with people on their phones, I pull out a book, and write in it or draw in it! A few people have asked about it and I have happily spread the good word. My only real comment about the book is that having purchased mess at the same time, I would say that this book is far more about total destruction but Mess focuses on some artistic techniques and I think is a bit more educational (it asks you to reference people, places, things, etc) although some of the pages in Mess are exactly the same as Wreck this Journal. While some would argue looking at this book that they could write this book - I would say well yes, but Keri Smith actually did and it may not have taken a long time to write it or to come up with the concepts, but I think time was taken in working out the best ways to destroy a book inside of it. Originality in today's world is a hard thing to come by. Anybody could do anything realistically if they put their mind to it and worked hard, but sometimes the simpler successes are the harder ones to identify yourself, and Keri Smith got the simple attractiveness of this book just right. I would recommend this book to pretty much anyone. It is particularly fun to do with kids. Its a good laugh and a nice way to occupy time, in comparison to constantly pulling out your phone and messing around with games or the internet. It is a sort of project and takes time, but is definitely an interesting way to spend the time.

amazing fun for kids and adults alike. loved this.

Expensive for what it is but my daughter loves hers great for autism and ADHD

Initially bought this as a gift but they loved it so much I ended up buying another for a family member and then another for myself! They are not only fun but I found it to be such an amazing way to "break the mould" where the whole purpose is to destroy something brand new. It's so therapeutic but in a really controlled way. Some of the pages are more specific than others but really you can do whatever you like with it, and if you and other people did it at the same time, they would still all end up SO different. Amazing creative outlet but in a small space. Just such good fun!

I bought this as a gift for a friend after I bought myself one previously. I have really enjoyed looking into each page and seeing what it tells me to do. Some of the pages I'm a little unwilling to do just yet, but I'll work my way up! My boyfriend's favourite is "Collect your pocket lint and stick it to this page" and he keeps bugging me to do it! I like that you can pick it up and carry it around with you and dip in and out each day. One of the reasons I dislike real diaries is the need to write in it each day, with no room for forgetting. This I've had for a month, and I've just done a few pages, left it, and then come back to it when I felt like it. It's something I can hand to someone else to do something, lend to a friend, leave in the garden without worrying about the dog eating it; it's very liberating! Great fun, and cheap enough to not be worried about destroying it! Great present, that does genuinely keep on giving!

Great for young kid

Getting me out of my comfort zone, this has challenged me to be creative and I don't have to be perfect.

Die Lieferung war schnell, das Buch war gebraucht, sah aber aus wie neu.

Ho acquistato questo articolo nella sua versione più economica (in bianco e nero) perché mi sarebbe dispiaciuto spendere dei più per qualcosa destinato a rovinarsi. Devo dire che il libro mi ha stupita: è molto divertente e sembra un percorso studiato per la creatività più che per la distruzione. Le idee all'interno sono molto originali e potrebbero essere utilizzate da grandi e piccini. La qualità delle pagine non è pessima come mi aspettavo, ho utilizzato del caffè su una pagina ed è a malapena visibile in quella successiva. Veramente un ottimo acquisto, potrei prendere altri libri di questa linea.

This book was a great idea, kept my daughter and her friends amused for ages. Once done all the tasks though, that was the end of the book. Great amusement idea though.

Ce petit livre est un bijou. Enfin il le deviendra ou pas. Voilà un livre qu'on s'approprie totalement. J'en ai un exemplaire et mon petit gars de 9 ans aussi. On s'amuse beaucoup avec. Il y a quelques 200 pages et plus avec une seule ou deux consignes très simples (pour ceux et celles qui craignent que l'anglais les bloque, c'est super simple et deux fois moins cher que la version française). Par exemple on va vous demander de faire des trucs que jamais on a eu le droit de faire sur un livre comme mâcher une page (mon mari trouvait ça con mais en entendant mon fils se marrer comme une outre à l'étage, je pense qu'il se trompe). Le motto de Keri Smith, c'est "to create is to destroy" et vice versa en fait. Le journal est assez costaud pour lui faire subir la misère: le balancer du haut d'un immeuble, prendre sa douche avec etc.... Les consignes sont LIBREMENT interprétables et c'est fondamental pour la réussite du projet. Le côté transgressif est très plaisant et on en apprend un peu sur soi selon ce qu'on peut faire ou pas. Par exemple je ne peux pas me séparer de ma page préférée donc il va falloir que je contourne la règle. On peut aussi en inventer soi-même (perso je l'ai cuit au four à 160°). Et bien sûr, il faut laisser parler sa créativité pour décorer le résultat obtenu et c'est là que ça prend toute sa valeur. Pour moi c'est un cadeau parfait pour tous mais surtout pour de jeunes ados qui ont envie d'explorer les limites du recevable en toute sécurité et envie d'exprimer qui ils sont. J'encourage les gens qui hésiteraient à aller voir les vidéos que font les gens là dessus sur internet. Surtout ne pas hésiter!