A Mini Saga and a few thoughts on the creative process. So I am currently taking classes to earn my MBA, and we are using an amazing book entitled A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. I highly recommend it if you ever do any marketing (either as a creative or industry business person). One of our assignments was to write a 50 word mini saga. I realized my process for creating the saga was very similar to my process for creating a painting.
I began by channeling an emotion. Sometimes I do this by walking around or finding a location that speaks to me, sometimes I do this by looking through images that speak to me, and sometimes I try to make sense of a situation through free association with words, feelings, phrases, or descriptors. For this particular task I sat outside in the night and looked up at all the stars and began creating a story in my mind with whatever words and phrases came to me. Then I gave the story a bit of time to rest before spinning it into the following mini saga:
The Aviatrix by Stacy Palado
She was outgoing, a tomboy, catching frogs near the water. That was gone now – the accident changed her. She stopped talking and wet the bed.
Eventually she learned to walk again, though she would never run. But she would fly – soaring through the skies like a modern-day Amelia Earhart.
Stacy-Ann Art 