Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

Every time we pick up a pen or lay our fingers on the keys to write, we engage in a process of which much is written, but I wonder how much is really known? We know there is a process… even the most prosaic business letter will have a certain amount of thought and consideration poured into the words in order to elicit the desired effect. How much more so with creative writing?

Thinking it through it seems, like so many other things, to be based on a threefold foundation. There has to be the inspiration that leads to the spark of an idea, then a discussion, either with another person or an internal debate that takes that naked spark and clothes it in imagination; then finally we take action… and from that combination, a phrase is born, taking the insubstantial realm of mind and bringing something new into the…