John Baker’s Blog

What phases are involved in the creation of a text?
When a substantial idea occurs to me it occurs in what I call a cloud. The cloud includes a few images, a few words, a few thoughts (as different from words), even tunes of songs. Immediately I write it in my notebook that I carry [...]

What phases are involved in the creation of a text?
“A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times; a dozen or two dozen times and he is great.”
Randall Jarrell

This quote by one of the finest poetry critics of [...]

What phases are involved in the creation of a text?
By far, the most important point in the process of creating a story for me is the beginning, the first moment it forms. In real life, I tend to have strong emotional reactions to places and moments. It could be a certain time of [...]

What phases are involved in the creation of a text?
To describe the phases involved in the creation of a text is not easy for me, because the process itself is never easy. Well, you could say that sometimes, in very rare circumstances, it is, but then it’s always a bit deceptive because there is a [...]