Danica Swanson
@danicaswanson
In which I explore what happens when I let in-progress works incubate as long as they need, and otherwise give my deep-writer-mind carte blanche. https://paragraph.xyz/@danicaswanson/what-is-creative-incubation
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moreReese
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This is one of the most cogent and insightful pieces I’ve read about someone’s creative process. I especially like your language around attention (eg micro-dispersals of attention and attention residue), and your conception of the deep-writer-mind and the writer-self. Thank you for creating and sharing!
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Danica Swanson
@danicaswanson
Thanks for the kind words! A tip o' the hat to you from deep-writer-mind, too. :) Currently incubating another piece about attention. The insight about attention residue is from Dr. Sophie Leroy. Nice to learn that there's a name for this experience. https://www.uwb.edu/business/faculty/sophie-leroy/attention-residue
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moreReese
@morereese
Looking forward to it, especially as someone with ADHD who all-too-often gets stuck in the muck of sticky attention residue. It’s not lacking attention that’s problematic, it’s the hyperfocus and the poor context switching skills.
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Danica Swanson
@danicaswanson
I wonder how many of us actually have good context-switching skills? I'm not in that camp. But even if I were, would those skills even be a match for the unrelenting demands of the modern world? Seems the structural micro-dispersals of attention are much more prevalent than they once were.
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moreReese
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From a tech perspective it’s interesting bc net attention skills might be diminishing but we have more tools to help us manage more context, especially digital context. Ironically, those tools can create more cognitive load and actually limit our abilities to context switch.
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