What I like about the final step is that it’s potentially never-ending.
Malcolm Cowley on the Four Stages of Writing (Brain Pickings)
“Revision, revision, revision” and revision, revision, … until you have it good enough. There is no perfect. It’s also illuminating to think of the stages that occur before revision. Those preparation stages.
The Art of Thought: Graham Wallas on the Four Stages of Creativity, 1926 (Brain Pickings)
The Creativity Question, Albert Rothenberg, Carl R. Hausman (Amazon)
A 5-Step Technique for Producing Ideas circa 1939 (Brain Pickings)
Dancing About Architecture: A Field Guide to Creativity (Brain Pickings)
T. S. Eliot on Idea Incubation, Inhibition, and the Mystical Quality of Creativity + a Rare Recording (Brain Pickings)
Alexander Graham Bell on creativity, innovation, and success (Brain Pickings)
Uncommon Genius: Stephen Jay Gould On Why Connections Are The Key to Creativity (Brain Pickings)
ideation (or ideate): a word I continue to enjoy noticing after seeing The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee [Wikipedia]. (The original site is entertaining and informative, too.)