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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.

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.