Creative Process

My Creative Process

Throughout the time I spent working on this project, I was able to learn a lot about how I work and the creative process that I use, as well as tools that could be used to benefit my work ethic and spur on my creativity. One of the techniques that we covered in CPSA250, which ended up being the one I used the most during my project, was rapid prototyping/iteration. The process required me to give myself limited time to brainstorm what each page would look like and the content it would consist of, as well as additional notes such as adding a page or two of just photographs. This challenge forced me to think quickly about each page, and not to spend too much time getting attached to an idea before moving on to the next one. I thought the idea of "killing your darlings" was really interesting to learn about: laying out each of your project’s main points and the tools that you use to make your point, and figuring out which ones serve a purpose and which should be let go for the sake of the final product (Dietz, 2019). This is not an approach I've ever taken with a project before; I tend to get focused on the end goal and the steps that it takes to get there, but this approach seems to make you more flexible with your ideas and the path to your next benchmark. 

Dietz, Lynda. “What It Really Means to Kill Your Darlings. It may be the release of the burden you didn’t know you were carrying.” The Writing Cooperative. June 17, 2019. www.writingcooperative.com/what-it-really-means-to-kill-your-darlings-ab364e312eea