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

Writer, senior editor, music nerd, GenX eldergoth, monastery-bootstrapper. https://paragraph.xyz/@danicaswanson https://tinyurl.com/Black-Stone-Wordsmith

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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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.

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