SCRATCH PAPER JOURNALING

Today, I want to show you a couple of examples of what we might call "Scratch Paper" Journaling. ​

​I carry pens and paper around in a business-style notepad case.  I replace the pad of ruled sheets with about 25 sheets of plain copy paper.  I feel that the unruled sheets (no lines) help promote visual thinking.  So I doodle ideas on cheap copy paper - usually - with a ballpoint pen.  Here's the advantage:  With scratch paper, there's no strings attached and there's no hidden agenda.  You see, we are under too much pressure to share and tweet every little thing we make.  It's a strategy to have a free, offline journaling session that serves a personal interest to sort things out without a larger audience.

​Often, I start out with making a grocery list or a list of things to do.  From there, I go off on a tangent, and anything is possible.  The pages tend to look cluttered and sloppy.   But I get some things clear in my mind. Plus, I accomplish another purpose:  I jump-start the creative process.  Once I have cleared my mind, in the spirit of notes on the back of an envelope, the intention is to throw the paper away.  And I do throw some of it away.  But for most of these scratch paper pages, I always seem to find something that might be worth considering later on.  So I collect these scraps in a three-ring binder. ​

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