15: Open, loops.
"Don't break the chain." - Jerry Seinfeld
You’re Reading Adam Ming’s Daily Blog, This month I’m writing a series about taking time for your creative practice. Each post, includes an invitation to spend ten minutes developing your creative practice.
I’m doing this in October to complement any Drawing challenge you might be doing. I will be doing the classic inktober.
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Today’s 10 Minute invitation.
Intentionally leave some part of your work incomplete as a trigger to continue from that spot tomorrow. Use this to help you get started more easily as a way to psychologically nag yourself to continue the habit.
If you’re a writer you would have probably heard how Hemmingway would leave a sentence incomplete so he could easily come back the next day to finish it. Apparently our brain hate incompleteness and seeks to resolve any incomplete task or open loop.
Open loops generally weigh us down and keep us distracted, but intentionally creating an open loop is a way to focus your attention.
Today is day 15 of inktober, and I drew the prompt guidebook.
There is noting particularly noteworthy about this drawing, I kept the chain going and will move on. To create an open loop I’m going to draw a frame and write the prompt for tomorrow’s drawing to open the loop.