The book is self-destructive.  It actively encourages the reader to destroy it over time.  The purpose is to destroy the stigma of violating a book by writing it the margins, dog-ear marking favorite pages, etc.  I’ve started going through it by flipping to a page that seems to meet my mood and doing whatever it says to do.  After I get a few more of them done I’ll start to select some of my favorites and post photos of them.

Some of the activities include numbering the pages, breaking the spine, taking a shower with the book, and even tearing a page out, putting it through the washer, and putting it back in place.  Some of the activities, such as taking a shower with the book, seem to be more destructive than others and I’ll probably save them for last.  I think that one in particular could make it difficult to complete a lot of other tasks in the book.

I love writing, but one of my biggest problems is picking up a new notebook and getting the first few lines of text out.  I believe it has something to do with a combination of not wanting to start out wrong,  and having to correct it.  Holding that brand new notebook just has a sense of perfection and I want to keep that perfection as I use it.  I am hopeful that this journal will help me overcome that form of writer’s block and make it easier to write down some of the stories I want to write.