John Baker’s Blog

There’s a sentence in my notebook which says: Mind and imagination are crippled by notion, conviction and opinion.
Sounds like a quote but it came to me one night while I was sleeping. I woke with the words in my head. They weren’t quite arranged in that way when I first heard them. I wrestled for [...]

What are the phases involved in the creating of a text?
* Phases of Creation
* Let the poem guide its creation.
* I wonder if the Biblical God had a master plan, or when he saw he’d created birds did he only then think of fish; when created earth only at the instance of that wonderful sight [...]

What phases are involved in the creation of a text?

I have been thinking about your question. I think my first creative phase comes visually - I can see a picture very clearly and then normally an idea or a theme will come, either in discussion with a real person or from the page which brings [...]

What phases are involved in the creation of a text?
It’s like sculpture.
You start with a huge block of stone and the idea that you would like to sculpt an elephant. You might even have some drawings that you have spent a while working on, capturing the essence of elephant. So you chip away, trying to [...]