The Natural Creative Process in Writing: A Core Writing and Editing Handbook for Everyone

The topics covered in the generating and research stage are the following:
Storing and retrieving methods
Freewriting
Informal interviews
Brainstorming (lists, mind-maps)
Analogies
Heuristics
Research
Specialist interviews

For many of us, the attitude and behaviour proposed in the natural creative process method of writing runs counter to the training that we received at school, where we were told to start writing as soon as we were given our topic.
It is important to do the following during the receptive generating and research stage: look, explore, be, take walks in nature (nature is a good stimulus), observe, receive, record.