Journal Sparks: Fire Up Your Creativity with Spontaneous Art, Wild Writing, and Inventive Thinking

by Emily K. Neuburger

Overview

Do you want to keep a journal but don’t know where to start? Get inspired with 60 interactive writing prompts and craft how-tos to expand your imagination and stimulate your creativity. 

Using words, drawing, collage, and observation-based list-making, award-winning author Emily K. Neuburger highlights the many paths into journaling. Every spread invites a new approach to filling a page, from making a visual map of a day-in-my-life to turning random splotches into quirky characters for a playful story. It’s the perfect companion to all those blank books and an ideal launchpad to explore creative self-expression and develop an imaginative voice — for anyone ages 10 to 100! 
 
Teachers' Choice Award Winner 
Mom's Choice Awards Winner 
Foreword INDIES Gold Award Winner 
National Parenting Product Awards Winner 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612126524
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	04/18/2017
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Emily K. Neuburger is a writer, artist, and freelance art and creative writing teacher. She is passionate about encouraging people to get pumped about creativity, especially when it comes to the intersection of words and art. She is the author of the award-winning book Show Me a Story (Dr. Toy Best Picks, Family Choice Award, National Parenting Products Award honors, USA Best Books, International Book Awards finalist) and writes regularly about creativity and unexpected treasures on her website, emilyneuburger.com, as well as in print magazines and around the web. She lives in western Massachusetts with her husband and three children.
 

Table of Contents

About the Author
Getting Started
1  Observation
2  Invention
3  Collection
4  Color & Construction
5  Wordsmith
6  Journal Challenges
7  Journal Making & Hacking
Acknowledgments
Fortune Envelope
Collage Papers
Pop-out Speech Bubbles
Stickers

Editorial Reviews

A visually adorable and joyful book full of inspiring and creative ideas for seeing, gathering, and experimenting. You will stay motivated to create for a long time!” — Jennifer Orkin Lewis, artist and illustrator at augustwren.com

“A great roadmap for getting started with journaling. These thoughtful writing prompts and playful art activities will inspire and engage!” — Susan Schwake, best-selling author of Art Lab for Kids series

“My family’s favorite kind of any-age book. These friendly, fabulous, and imaginative prompts are great for journaling but they’re also approachably small, stand-alone creative projects. You’ll soon be busy charting your world of favorite things and places and words and dreams.” — Catherine Newman, author of Waiting for Birdy and Catastrophic Happiness

“I dare you to make it halfway through this book without running to grab your journal and a pencil! This trove of inspiring and practical ideas encourages us to push our creative boundaries and revel in the play between words and pictures.” — Alexandra Kennedy, executive director of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

“Transcendent! At a time when all of us — children and adults — are deluged with pixels and information, Emily Neuburger inspires us to use a journal to notice, feel, connect, and reflect.” — Sam Intrator, professor of education and child'study at Smith College
 

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