http://workingthrough.com/blog/45-creative-process-in-8-stages thinking about/with creative people and groups Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:20:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://workingthrough.com/blog/45-creative-process-in-8-stages/comment-page-1#comment-7 Alex Sat, 17 Nov 2007 02:56:19 +0000 http://workingthrough.com/?p=14#comment-7 Lynda Barry has a trenchant comic on this. It used to be on my dining room wall. It's about getting past your negative internal editor and being willing to endure the uncertainty of letting out the unknown within you. Or, as Anne Lamott says, "Perfectionism is what stands between you and your shitty first draft." Lynda Barry has a trenchant comic on this. It used to be on my dining room wall. It’s about getting past your negative internal editor and being willing to endure the uncertainty of letting out the unknown within you. Or, as Anne Lamott says, “Perfectionism is what stands between you and your shitty first draft.”

]]> http://workingthrough.com/blog/45-creative-process-in-8-stages/comment-page-1#comment-6 Kery Dexter Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:17:14 +0000 http://workingthrough.com/?p=14#comment-6 Roger von Oech's model of stages of thinking about a project --The Explorer, The Artist,The Judge, The Warrior -- is in some ways speaking of the same thing. Von Oech's model is more true and more useful to me in my creative practice than what's described in the essay, though.Accept discouragement, yes; do the hard work of working through it or throwing it out, yes; hang around with it, no. Roger von Oech’s model of stages of thinking about a project –The Explorer, The Artist,The Judge, The Warrior — is in some ways speaking of the same thing. Von Oech’s model is more true and more useful to me in my creative practice than what’s described in the essay, though.Accept discouragement, yes; do the hard work of working through it or throwing it out, yes; hang around with it, no.

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