I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.
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I create art. It's kinda abstract.
With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school. Each time you try to go a little further, get a little deeper, feel a little more, sculpt it a little better.
I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.
When you go into projects, you can't look at it as limited; you have to dive into it wholeheartedly to be true to the writer's vision.
These days, there are times when my academic thinking intervenes in my writing, but it's usually while I'm developing a project and not while I'm writing it.
I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.
I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.
I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.
I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the words of art and create them verbally rather than build them.
You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.