The Autumnal City has been hijacked.

Don’t worry, it’s not as serious as it sounds.

Over the past few months I’ve only been posting entries to Corvus’s Blogs of the Round Table, and I’ve noticed my game design ideas have begun to dovetail with my MFA Creative Thesis. Since I’ve just entered my final semester at Spalding University, and only have three months to whip my thesis into shape, I’ve decided to use this space to catalog and discuss my process.

I hope all of my current followers will find my creative process for writing interesting and informative since I believe it shares a lot with any other creative process. I’ve found that any differences in the act of creating across forms is usually an opportunity to examine my own methods and often offers a new perspective on my writing.

For those not interested in improving or comparing their own creative process, I’m interested to see if a peek into my development of an idea from first to “final” draft changes your perspective on creation or sheds any new light on how stuff comes together in the deranged mind of a writer.

To begin sharing my experience this semester, I’ve decided to write a series of introductory posts. The first will give an overview of the requirements in my last semester of graduate school, along with personal goals I’ve set for myself that extend past graduation. The second will describe my Creative Thesis and my intentions for it this semester. The last will explain the  graduate lecture I’m giving in November at the Spalding residency.

After the introduction, I’ll discuss my revision process as it grows and changes, since it is constantly revising itself. I’ll look at specific stories and explain why I made the changes I did, as well as how I discovered a change needed to be made. One of the goals of sharing all of this is to constantly refine my process, so feel free to let me know what’s working and not working, or what works and doesn’t work for your process.

Also, I’d love to be a part of an ongoing cross-form discussion about the creative process, so let me know in the comments if you have a blog pursuing similar interests in writing or any other creative outlet.