• You have to have an idea in your head before making marks on the page.
  • Making marks on the page give you an idea, which you follow by making more marks.

Thinking this way is about setting up a loop between head and eye and hand and materials.”

Thinking on the page - Austin Kleon

Sönke Ahrens echoes this:

“no matter how internal processes are implemented, (you) need to understand the extent to which the mind is reliant upon external scaffolding.” (2011, 270)

You have to externalise your ideas, you have to write.