Tag Archives: process

Inside the creative process of @ArthurSlade

As I’ve mentioned before, part of my life is spent studying how creativity works and how software tools might be designed differently to help foster the human creative process. It…

Why showing is both more and less than telling

Every writer has probably heard the advice, “Show, don’t tell,” but very few teachers can explain what they mean by that. It seems to be one of those “you know…

INCEPTION: How to make a reader feel an emotion

Elsewhere, I’ve talked about the theory that causing people to think in a way associated with a particular mood can often cause them to experience the mood itself. Before today,…

Understanding creative flow, Part 2

In a previous article, I discussed the concept of creative flow and why it’s a good thing, and then I offered some thoughts on how to protect and extend it…

Increase writing productivity by understanding flow

We all know that feeling of being in the zone. You sit down to write after dinner and when you look up next, the sun is rising and the neighbors…