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Analyse your own creative products (or singular product) and processes in relation to
models/theories of creativity and writing. Your analysis should include references to at

least two other writers who have influenced you.

'The three men I admire most are Curly, Larry, Mo ! '

(Steinman, 1993)

Influences and inspirations can come from many different directions when we are
writing. They are most commonly found in our favourite writers but can come from many

other sources including music, film, TV, the written media and our own worldly

observations. The quote used above does not mean that featured influences are Curly,

Larry and Moe but that the writer of that line is. The author is Jim Steinman, a songwriter

who writes his rock music so passionately that it should be poetry. Music has a greater
influence than many realise so this will be explored in a little more depth. This is not to

discount the importance of other literary figures in shaping our creations. There is possibly

no greater model for the aspiring horror writer than Stephen King. His success has come
from hard work at perfecting his craft. Both of these men served as influences when writing

'Rock-a-bye' amongst other works.

Many accepted theories and conventions of creative writing were accounted for during the

creation of 'Rock-a-bye' but the writing was flavoured by the two aforementioned men who
I was reading and listening to at the time. What makes a person write what they write and

how they write? We hope to offer some answers to these questions by touching upon

issues of duplicity, motivation, crossing barriers and reasoning.

No writer sets out to show the world that they are or are not who their work purports them
to be. We have slippery doubles,

'... so it would follow as the day the night that

I must have a slippery double - or at least a mildly