Journaling About Creativity, Design, and Collaboration: 14. Filling Blanks

Continuing this series, where I share one page and transcription of a handwritten journal entry.

Filling Blanks

Page 14

Exercises and prompts with

empty places to add your ideas

exist in many forms.

Even an empty page

once acted on with your

pen and instinct,

framed with an intent

which opens a question,

or both.

When a blank stands in your way,

try filling it by not thinking.

If you have a thought,

try making it into a

question.

Then answer your

question by

filling the page.

Brief reaction to transcribing this page.

Blanks and emptiness both real and imagined are part of the experience of making things. This page of journaling is one way to look at responding to the emptiness.

Creative work feels like call and response. Urge to make then what do you do with it. Noticing a need then how do you respond. Feeling and message intertwined that have somewhere to go and it's your job to set them on a path to be expressed.