An International Journal of Exploratory Meta-Living

An Open Source Journal
published through the Auspices of the Poison Pie Publishing House
Knoxville, Tennessee

Issue 03 (2015)

Abstract: In this letter, a few thoughts are shared regarding the nature of the improvisational creative process and its application to writing. Here, through a reliance on a continuing analogy with music, we state our hypothesis that there could exist (and may already exist) a class of improvised novels, which are distinguished from novels generated through the traditional composition-based creative process by many of the same characteristics that differentiate improvised and composed music.