Journaling About Creativity, Design, and Collaboration: 11. Demon's Final Boss
Moved my Creativity Journal banner template to Canva.
Continuing this series, where I share one page and transcription of a handwritten journal entry.
- Capturing each concept and exploring it in a given page has a simple process.
- Transcribing creates a chance to stay true to the original page while allowing interpretation with word flow and once in a while punctuation or small copy change.
I wasn't planning on further commentary yet, but have started adding reactions to this transcription process.
Demon's Final Boss
Page 11.
Knowing and naming why you are stuck
can be useful.
But doesn't guarantee you will
become unstuck.
Every hurt filled story
and every circumstance that reminds
retells
and relives
that story can become a demon.
Demons block creativity
if we allow
this to happen.
Brief reaction to transcribing this page.
Maybe I want to make a metal album out of these prose meditations on making things. Could be talking about demons sounds metal to me. I derive so much joyful energy when I listen to metal bands I love it's one of the ways I run right past my creative demons, get to making and sharing work.
Then in recent times I consider my creative demons as workers in my mind workshop. They're on my team. Their voice is part of my voice. We can get along, though there are days and weeks where it's not easy.
It's a kind of self acceptance practice. It's okay for things to be difficult in the creative process. If I include my whole self and keep a kind framing around the work I get a chance to learn a different kind of adaptability and resilience instead of getting stuck or avoiding.
I am my demon's final boss.