• How much does the author rely on intuition in creating her work?
• How emotionally involved is the writer with his work?
• How personal and/or autobiographical is the author's material?
• Do the author's working methods shape the final product in any way?
• Does the writer keep journals or notebooks?
• Does he work quickly? Methodically? Spontaneously?
• How much revision and editing takes place?
• What kinds of resources does the author have at her disposal?
• Do any particular interests of the author's influence what he writes?
• Is the writer better at certain kinds of writing?
• Is the author seeking to emulate other authors, works, styles?
• Does the author have a particular audience or audiences in mind?

"All manner of thing shall be well/ When the tongues of flame are in-folded/ Into the crowned knot of fire/ And the fire and the rose are one." -- T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding