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The creative cycle in a nutshell

June 6, 2011

This is a slide from designer/illustrator Christoph Niemann’s charming recent talk at Creative Mornings. Substitute “Sending Manuscript to Editor” for “Writing Invoice,” and you pretty much have the writing life. Watch the whole talk if you have a few minutes. (Via Brain Pickings.) For the record, I am currently mired in the agony of the concept stage … still.

Filed Under: Creativity Tagged With: bookfour, cartoons

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  1. Philipharv says

    June 6, 2011 at 8:31 pm

    Excellent! Its the same for architecture, except the fun stage is way smaller! And the bit where at the end is missing – where you forget just how hard the whole thing was and then do it all over again anyway. Like most things in life I guess! Now, back to my invoicing…

    • Bill Landay says

      June 6, 2011 at 11:54 pm

      Wait, what about the part before you forget how miserable the whole thing was and you wallow in depression because you’ll never, ever have another idea again? That’s my personal favorite.

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