To me, the creative process is the following.
There is where you are right now,
And there is the outcome you are trying to achieve.
In between, there are all the ups and downs,
the challenges,
the highs,
the lows,
the dips of stillness,
of growth
of uncertainty,
a loop-de-loop spiral
—whatever you want to call it.
And at the end of it all, you’ll be back at the beginning to where you are, looking for an achievable outcome.
That is the creative process.
That is what it means to practice creativity.