To be honest, I wish I could come out here and say I have a process. I wish I could just begin to tell you wonderful people about some grandiose exercise or series of activities that spark my creativity - that would actually imply that I believe I am creative.
I love to write, whenever I can, but I don't think there is a process for me in going about it. Masterclass says that there are 5 stages to the creative process; preparation, incubation, illumination, evaluation and verification. I think for me these stages if at all we want to force a process on me are just 2 - the illumination and evaluation stages.
The illumination stage basically is defined as the "aha moment"; that point where my mind goes "oh shit this is a good story". It is usually a small scene that comes up in my head that I begin to write about and just continue to expand until I feel like I have written enough or the crescendo has been attained. I sometimes go back to it to see if it is good enough to show others and that brings me to the evaluation stage.
It is this simple for me and sometimes it makes me feel like I do not have an actual process or I do not create content deep enough for people to read. However with the reviews I get when people read my stories, I think I still do a fairly good job at storytelling. I can't wait to see how you creatives do your own processing.
