This study examined the creative process through insights offered by 25 artists and writers. The study concludes that the conception of the creative process as a transitional sphere is useful, but there also appear to be creators who mine internal, even autistic, territory and others whose creativity is energized by the external sociopolitical…

A theory of teaching creative writing that involves preconscious learning is presented in this paper. Following a review of the literature on methods of developing writing ability, the paper describes a three-step creative process of preparation (the gathering and study of appropriate materials), incubation (the preconscious absorption and shaping…