Multiplayer creativity

For the longest time, I thought “process” starved the creative process.

That it was a “business thing” that was at odds at “art things”.

But it’s not the case.

A creative process is a solo endeavour until there is a process through which others can contribute.

For solo creative processes, that’s fine. There’s still a process, but it lives in your head, fine.

For creative processes that require the contribution of others, that’s not fine. That process needs to come out of your head. It needs defining. It needs to show what success looks like. It needs to show what’s OK and not OK. It needs to show how contributions take place, and what happens, in what order.

“Process” doesn’t starve the creative process.

It enables it to become multiplayer.

What a lovely thing that is.