David Mack provides tips for overcoming a blank page when writing or creating. He recommends bombarding yourself with examples from other works to spark ideas. Next, diverge by quickly drawing many ideas and converging to identify the best approaches. Finally, live-prototype ideas by testing them on other websites to get feedback before implementing. The document shares advice for generating new ideas and content by looking outward for inspiration when facing an empty page.

1. David Mack
david@datoral.com
Creating
out of
chaos

2. The blank
page

3. Mary Shelley
On Frankenstein
" I felt that blank incapability of invention
which is the greatest misery of authorship,
when dull Nothing replies to our anxious
invocations."
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted,
does not consist in creating out of void but
out of chaos."
The blank page...

4. #1 Bombard yourself with
examples (and borrow lots)

5. #2 Diverge, converge
Quickly draw
MANY ideas
Identify best
approaches

6. #3 Live-prototype on other
people's sites

7. Qs?
David Mack
david@datoral.com
Thank you to all those who over the years have shared
their ideas and approaches