John Baker’s Blog

What phases are involved in the creation of a text?
I’ve tried many different ways of writing:
Jumping in without having planned anything.
Writing an outline from the beginning to the end before starting the actual text.
Writing an outline from the initial idea/premise and expanding it outwards (I think it’s called the snowflake technique) before starting the actual [...]

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 [...]

What phases are involved in the creation of a text?
Creation for me usually begins with an idea born during a moment of inspiration. That would be my first phase. I never know when inspiration is going to hit, but it happens most often when I’m listening to music, sewing, meditating, or working in [...]