The Creative Process in a Nutshell
How to find flow in five minutes and create with ease
Something a little different this week. I wrote an early version of this eight years ago and posted it on my website. I thought it might be useful if I repost for readers of Writing a Better World, where it might more easily be read, found and shared. I’ve enlarged and improved on it a little. And corrected those humiliating typos I have only just spotted :-)
The creative process is left out of most creative writing teaching. I’ve been teaching “process” for 25+ years, and I thought it would be helpful to share what I have learned here (and what I teach) in a handy, easy-to-link-to format. Some of this only applies to writing. But some of it applies to all kinds of creation.
The process of writing is really two processes
The creative process is actually two separate processes: creation and criticism (editing). The biggest mistake an aspiring writer can make is trying to create and critique at the same time. Example: a sentence comes into your head, and inste…
