In sculpture, a theory persists that the statue is already inside the stone – the sculptor just needs to chip away the unnecessary bits. I have a similar theory (but more involved and weirder, since I do most of my work on a computer). I believe design creation is a fluid puzzle with talking pieces. Sometimes they sing about how they fit together, they whisper in the details, and before I any conscious thought into it, the finished work is floating happy on the screen.

In photography, the pieces are the hinted emotions – the lines and colors, the overall feel that I want to emphasize or downplay.
In web design, they’re the style and theme, dictating how the text shows up and which points are emphasized. When the pieces are chatty, the design process simply flows – smooth, uncomplicated, fast, fun.
In writing, the pieces are my characters. They have definitive ideas on everything. If you know your people, your scenes will write themselves. In any given situation, there’s only so many things a character will do if he remains true to himself.

This is all well and good, until the pieces go off to have a smoke and flat out refuse to show up. They can be fickle that way.

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