Hello jackbe-ga,
I've organized a digest of links to books and articles
on writers commenting on the creative process.
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Books
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AFFECT AND CREATIVITY: The Role of Affect and Play in the Creative
Process
Sandra Walker Russ
LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS 1993 Hillsdale, New Jersey
Hove and London
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The Creative Process: A Computer Model of Storytelling and Creativity
Book by Scott R. Turner; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994
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The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process
Book by Ann McCutchan; Oxford University Press, 1999
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Henry James: the Creative Process
Book by Harold T. McCarthy; T. Yoseloff, 1958
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Contemporary Approaches to Creative Thinking: A Symposium Held at the
University of Colorado
Book by Howard E. Gruber, University of Colorado (Boulder Campus).
Dept. of Psychology; Atherton, 1962
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The Creative Process: Reflections on the Invention of Art
by Brewster Ghiselin (Editor)
Book Description:
This unique anthology brings together material from 38 well-known
writers, artists, and scientists who attempt to describe the process
by which original ideas come to them. Contributors include Albert
Einstein, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Amy Lowell, Rudyard Kipling, Max
Ernst, Katherine Anne Porter, Henry Miller, Carl Gustav Jung, Mary
Wigman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Henri Poincar and many others.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520054539/002-3212856-9464026?v=glance
Creativity in Context: Update to the Social Psychology of Creativity
by Teresa M. Amabile, Mary Ann Collins, Regina Conti, Elise Phillips,
Martha Picariello, John Ruscio, Dean Whitney
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Creativity : Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
by Mihaly Csikszent (Author)
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Creativity: The Magic Synthesis
by Silvano Arieti
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465014437/qid%3D1064089349/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/002-3212856-9464026
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Journal Articles
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Process-Analytic Models of Creative Capacities: Operations Influencing
the Combination-And- Reorganization Process
Journal article by Wayne A. Baughman, Michael D. Mumford; Creativity
Research Journal, Vol. 8, 1995
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Process-Based Measures of Creative Problem-Solving Skills: IV.
Category Combination
Journal article by Wayne A. Baughman, David P. Costanza, Michelle A.
Maher, Michael D. Mumford, Elizabeth P. Supinski; Creativity Research
Journal, Vol. 10, 1997
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Emotion, Metaphor and the Creative Process
Journal article by Isaac Getz, Todd I. Lubart; Creativity Research
Journal, Vol. 10, 1997
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Echoes of Silence: a Phenomenological Study of the Creative Process
Journal article by Steven Bindeman; Creativity Research Journal, Vol.
11, 1998
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The Writer Tells: The Creative Process in the Writing of Literary
Fiction
Journal article by Charlotte L. Doyle; Creativity Research Journal,
Vol. 11, 1998
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Creativity as Blind Variation and Selective Retention: Is the Creative
Process Darwinian?
Journal article by Dean Keith Simonton; Psychological Inquiry, Vol.
10, 1999
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Whither Goes DNA--An Intelligent Creative Process? Or, Creativity
Emanating from Psychotic Traits?
Journal article by Patricia A. Haensly, Cecil R. Reynolds;
Psychological Inquiry, Vol. 4, 1993
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Forced Incubation
Journal article by Donald H. Wells; Creativity Research Journal, Vol.
9, 1996
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Magazines
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Faces: the Creative Process Behind Great Portraits
Magazine article by James A. Baker; PSA Journal, Vol. 68, November
2002
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A Creative Dialog
Magazine article; Psychology Today, Vol. 32, July 1999
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The creative personality
Magazine article by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi; Psychology Today, Vol.
29, July-August 1996
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Full Text Article:
Broadening and Narrowing in the Creative Process: A Commentary on
Fredrickson's "Broaden-and-Build" Model
Kevin Rathunde
University of Utah
http://www.journals.apa.org/prevention/volume3/pre0030006c.html
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