Prompt: Write about something unfinished in your creative life.
The prompt for today, June 2nd, 2026, is: write about something unfinished in your creative life.
The title for this prompt is Restlessness.
Today I was supposed to get my cast off. I was hoping to get my cast off, and I did for a few hours. Then they put on a new cast because I have to wait for more scans to see if my wrist has healed.
To say that I’m frustrated today would be accurate, I guess. Yes, I’m quite frustrated and a little bit bummed about it.
The reason is that I was hopeful for what I’d be able to do once the cast came off. So instead of living in my present, living in the moment mindfully, I’m upset because I was looking forward to something. And you can’t predict the future. You just don’t know what’s going to happen.
Why is this relevant?
Because this is how I think a lot of my creative life unfolds. I have a vision for something, and then I get stuck, or there’s an upset, or a hiccup, or some sort of roadblock. Then the vision I’ve had is all of a sudden ruined because I can’t see the way forward. The path has changed.
And that’s not a good thing.
Part of all of these prompts and journals is to help me work through that in a public manner.
The lamp that I’ve been working on lately—and the series that I want to develop around it, which I’ve temporarily called the Four-Post Series of desk accessories—has run into a hiccup. I’ve hit a problem with the aesthetic of the lamp, and I can’t figure out the way forward. So now it’s just been sitting here for over a week, and I haven’t done anything to try and fix it.
I decided to backtrack a little and work on a sticky note holder instead. The hurdle there is that I want to use some clay to enhance the 3D print and give it a more organic feel, so it’s not as precise as it comes out of the printer.
But my hand being in a cast makes that difficult.
I could use my left hand, which I will have to. But I’m anxious about how that’s going to look. And the other thing is that I don’t have any clay sculpting tools, so that’s stopping me as well.
I sit in this sort of purgatory of unfinished projects and unfinished ideas because I’m scared, afraid, anxious, or otherwise dissuaded from moving forward.
I think that’s a huge problem in terms of developing myself as a creative, as a maker, as somebody who practices craft, and ultimately as somebody who hopes to make a living from it.
Because I can’t put anything out there if nothing ever gets done.
There’s a safety in it—a psychological safety—but it’s unwarranted and unfounded.
Anyway, that’s what I’ve been thinking.
You can find this prompt and more at Letters’ Lounge.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this prompt, or any of the others, so please leave a comment with a link to your own thoughts and ideas.
I’ll talk to you tomorrow, folks.
This transcript was lightly cleaned up with the help of AI to improve readability while preserving the original voice and intent of the recording.
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