What does the Other want of me?
If we assume “writing” is a key component of any creative process — as a tool for developing and communicating theoretical positions, methodological approaches, historical and literary records, not to mention interpretive, journalistic and critical supports, (or theraputic release)…
How does our approach to writing affect our creative product? What is the result of equating creativity with writing?
Formal Culture 
Truly fascinating questions.
I’ve been thinking about your initial assumption that writing is a key component of any creative process–how essential IS writing to the process? Does writing itself assist in the production of thoughts/ideas? Or, instead, is writing merely stenography (or even something more akin to “automatic writing”), tracing out the cognitive processes evolving, emerging in the mind? Can writing really be thought of as equivalent to creativity in any way (except, perhaps, as translator/rhetorician)?
And since I’m pointing to the mind as the originator of creativity, what role does image(versus or in sync with the word) play in creative processes?
Best,
Otto