Talking creativity at Essential Prose

September 3rd, 2009

It’s been a pleasure for me to be invited to talk about the creative process at Essential Prose, a popular blog held by Zoë Westhof.

Zoë lives in Thailand and she’s a writer who works with other writers, nonprofit and educational organizations, and media, and she’s also a storyteller, like me. She’s also a very popular author at Twitter and at her blog she explores the crossroads of creativity.

At Essential Prose, I have answered a few important questions about the creative process, in relationship with my latst published work, the set of illustrations for “Talking With Strangers” album release. Questions like these:

How important is research in storytelling and illustration?
What comes first, the story or the image?
Are emotions important in the creative process?
Do tight specifications make the creative process harder?
What happens when the story to illustrate is too abstract to put into images?
How to achieve the desired result?

You can read my answers at Essential Prose.

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