Searching to Write. Some Notes in favor of developing a theoretical model for research in writing

Everyone can recall Picasso’s letter on art in 1926 where, upon being taken for a searching artist, he claims: “I do not seek. I find.” A famous quote that has long been admired for flattering the conventional notion that a genius is one who relentlessly invents and creates, no matter what the circumstances. But the quote proves problematic now, in an age when the relationship between art and “research” is at the heart of a great many debate. […]