What, exactly, is the creative “process”?
Famously, it’s been described as sitting in front of the computer, slitting yours wrists and bleeding all over the keys. I have no idea what it is–I know only that when I’m in the grip of storytelling, it’s as though I’m in a trance, seeing and hearing people as if I were at a movie. I love it! Except there’s no popcorn, of course. The process is different for each creative person. For some, it’s dealing with a mess of ideas and images and inchoate thoughts. Sort of like driving down the road with one headlight, as my friend Cathie Linz has described it. You know stuff as it pops up in the headlight. Everything else is a mystery!
