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

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.