Getting a spaceship out of a swamp

Notes on a dream, pulling a spaceship out of a swampPowerful dream. How do we bring a creative work into existence? Sleep dream. Dream come true… You know the whole thing… You’re trying to catch it. Will the notes look like the thing?   Explains an aspect of the creative process.   We are walking in the woods and we see what looks like a half-sunk spaceship in a swamp. The strategies we use to get it out…   Writing: improvisational or planning? Improvisers use pre-planned things. Outliners have to improvise while making the outline… is there an outline for an outline?   Whatever process we use is the way we make sure the spaceship doesn’t sink… And the perception of complete control…. That’s even a way… that perception is a way, that’s the yarn, the magnet…   compared to music theory and grammar: maybe grammar could be called language theory? What is style? Is it the culmination of the how and the what?  Descriptive vs. Prescriptive grammar. Style is our own vocabulary developed as we get the spaceship out of the swamp.