John Baker’s Blog

What phases are involved in the creation of a text?
Far too much mystique surrounds the Writer, as if she (in my case) were some sort of demigod who, with the proper offerings, can be induced to hand down a Sacred Text. In fact, it’s all very simple, a process that anyone with an IQ of [...]

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?
Lightbulb/Eureka moment: it might be a title, or a theme, or a character that ‘pops’ up from nowhere or at least, the sub-conscious. Often it’s a combination of different ideas or preoccupations that have been bubbling away in my brain.
Greenhousing: this is where I try to [...]

What phases are involved in the creation of a text?
I have to confess to being fazed by the phases. Or should that be ‘phased by the phases’? Or ‘phased by the fazes’? You see my problem . . .
It jumbles my mind. I repeat the word ‘phases’ over and over [...]