MY CREATIVE PROCESS

The bulk of the artist's creative process was thinking about the poems they wanted to write after doing their research. This looked like allowing themselves to brainstorm while going about their day and piecing things together when they got to their laptop. They took a look at various scientific studies and neurodivergent artists to help inspire their creative writing process. 

The personal incentive/idea behind this work was to integrate the skills they are building in their psychology major with their side hobby of creative writing. Writing as a personal hobby, believe it or not, can lead to some burnout in that the artist tends to struggle to write creatively and experience guilt because of it. Burnout happened to be a topic discussed in our classes and one strategy used to write the poems for my capstone was solo tasking and blocking out my surroundings in order to fully lock in (Crenshaw, 2013) I would do this after looking into the research of neurodiversity and studying artists. 

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The Neurodivergent Revolution capstone project helped the artist find a way to bridge the gap between their two majors that they struggled to balance because they seemed so different. Therefore, they took something important to them: neurodiversity, and implementing it into their work creatively and "scientifically." In psychology, students are taught how to do scientific research and read those very long studies. Thus, the end product looks like a mini research project that is also a creative writing one, proving the point that the artist could integrate my two majors in a way that helped create more balance between them.