How does creation happen?
The story itself—the emergent life inside the inspiration—is a dynamic participant in the creative process.
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From Will to Inspiration: The Creative Spectrum
Both inspiration and willful exertion bring gifts and weaknesses; neither one is more worthy or more likely to produce art. That said, I’m convinced that an artist who inhabits an extreme on the spectrum at the stubborn exclusion of the other extreme is certain to stumble. The best art-making slides up and down the scale.