Moving to creativity
Moving to creativity. Creativity begins with a thought or a flash in your brain of something that you thought of or something that you want. After that initial flash, the thought begins to develop into a more concrete concept and where it becomes defined as an outline or a framework. The third stage is to take that outline and to start filling in details by breaking down the general idea and understanding the different components and trying to develop a cohesive solution. The fourth stage is bringing those thoughts and concepts into speech or writing again in a rough draft format and the final stage is the finished product. This can be compared to building a house. The first flash is that you would like to have a place to live in. You then start thinking about thoughts of what this place would look like. And after that, you get architectural drawings to fill in the details. Then you get a contractor to begin building the house per the drawings until you have a finished product. That is how you take a concept and turn it into reality.
— from The Mind in the Cockpit