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?
With me, there is almost always a central idea which initially strikes me well in advance of the actual writing - anything between nine months and three or more years - and usually in advance of any further note taking or planning. I suppose I just [...]

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 [...]

 
Granny Scarecrow
Tears flowed at the chapel funeral,
more beside [...]