John Baker’s Blog

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?
Regarding the inspiration behind a poem, a piece of prose or a short story, for me there is no set pattern. Sometimes a line of words will come into my head, or sometimes it will be an image, a memory, an idea or even something [...]

What phases are involved in the creation of a text?
For me there is usually the bright flash of the cool idea, that item that seizes your imagination and won’t let go. Sometimes it’s an image. Sometimes it’s a cool scene. Sometimes its a series of things I want to riff about. But they are [...]

What phases are involved in the creation of a text?
The first thing that has to happen: I find myself chewing over some question or premise that won’t go away. It’s months or years later and it’s still there, in the back of my head or maybe further forward than that. Could be anything, and in [...]