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IN CASE OF A CREATIVE EMERGENCY: 3. Create a blackout poem.
Blackout Poetry (or 'erasure') is a form of found poetry or found object art created by erasing words from an existing text in prose or verse and framing the result on the page as a poem.
I've been making these poems for only just over a year now. I've made over 100 of them. I find them incredibly addictive to make. Sometimes they'll take seconds, or minutes. Sometimes they can take much longer...But I'm always pleased with the end result. And after I've finished making one, I feel like I've engaged my creative brain into gear, so it's onto the next thing.
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'In case of a creative emergency' is a list that I bashed out on my typewriter in November 2022. I was facing some pretty bad creative block at the time. I hit the wall of creative block often, as do literally all people who do creative things. I wanted to come up with a list of things I can turn to, when facing the wall of resistance, in order to smash it down and keep going. The list was made up of things that I gave a few days to think about. I tried to draw on my own experiences of what has worked for me in the past, but there are also examples here of things that I haven't really tried yet, but things that I think the use of would certainly help me to exercise my creative muscles.
What started as a list for myself to overcome times when work is a struggle has now developed into a weekly video series where I approach each exercise/idea in an attempt to inspire others. In an incredibly strange and meta way, I've actually overcome creative block by making myself incredibly busy making videos about how I overcome creative block, which in turn helps me to overcome said creative block because I have lots of work to focus on. Like I said, it's all very confusing.
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