The creative process contains the steps involved in creating something. While every person has a different way of working, some common elements do exist.
| creative phases | obstacles | techniques | creative disciplines | |
| what | The steps or phases of creating, each serving an important part of the total. | Anything that slows down or stops the act of creating. | Methods to encourage creative thinking and actions, used to get the process moving and to solve obstacles that arise. | Creative disciplines are focused area of training and tradition in different forms of expression. |
| examples | dreaming, inspiration, thinking, action, destruction, revising | distraction, don’t have the skill, fear, miscalculation, run out of time | blocking in, using metaphor, mind mapping, storyboarding | architecture, dance, design, digital arts, literature, music, theatre, visual arts |
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