Q & A a day is a four year journal/sketchbook designed to increase your inspiration, creativity, problem solving, and memory. Each page contains a prompt and four roughly 4x4 squares for you to sketch your response to the prompt. Over the years, you can see how your responses change. It is one in a series of many four year journals.
I like that it is an alternative to a diary since not all are writers. The drawings may not give a clear picture of the details a diary would but I think it will be fun to go back and look for clues about what a day held one, two, or three years prior. I don't have to concern myself with whether or not I am an artist, the drawings can be as primitive or funny as my mood is. Some of the prompts include:
Draw your most used electronic device.
Study and draw the negative space of the scene in front of you.
Think of a lie you've told. Draw the truth.
What would symbolize your life's biggest challenge right now?
Draw three different kinds of utensil.
Doodle an invention you think would make life easier.
What was your favorite toy as a child?
I originally ordered this book to use with middle school gifted students as I struggle to increase their creativity but I just might have to give it a try myself. Stay tuned to see if they enjoy the daily prompts. I can already picture how some of them will struggle as perfectionists to sketch the perfect response when they are not artists themselves but I hope this non-graded activity will allow them to be more creative without fear of judgment or ridicule.
The volume has 365 pages for sketches, one for every day and is paperbound making it easier to sketch in and transport than a hardback book. The paper is quality but not sketch book type making it a bit easier to erase in my opinion. I think my kids will love it and I will be taking it to school tomorrow to get started.
I did receive this free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. I was in no way obligated to write a positive one.
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