The unrelenting discussion surrounding WikiLeaks' release of documents triggers conscious as well as unconscious elements which are deep-rooted in the psych of individuals and societies as well. It should therefore come as no surprise that some of these elements will end-up as leitmotifs in future fictional as well as nonfictional writings.
Endless articles and books have been attempting to describe and analyze the "creation of ideas" in an author's mind. Some wonder whether creative writing begins with the writer's "sitting and waiting" for the muse to "show up", or whether it is a process of perseverance and discipline.
Whichever of the two approaches an author adopts for his/her writing, there exist several assumptions about the creative process and where it originates from:
1. It is a well-known fact that many authors "take in" stimuli from their environment (movies, new-briefs, books, theatre, street-episodes, etc.) and incorporate them - whether consciously or unconsciously into their writing.
2. It is also a well-known (and debatable) assertion that authors' fictional books often involve, to some degree or another, some autobiographical elements regarding the "good" as well as the "bad" experiences from the author's own life (whether authors agree to this assertion or not is another matter).
3. Some writers (apparently more poets than fiction writers, for that matter) attest to the fact that their dreams provide them with a rich content for their writing. This should come as no surprise, since dreams often involve metaphors, symbols and similes originated in the unconscious.
Regardless of the "source" of an author's ideas, some writers say that as they sit down to write, the story unfolds in its own way and the characters "take over". At the end of the day, they can't always explain what made the characters behave one way or another.
Given all this ambiguity over the writing process, many questions have been raised over the years, such as:
* How does the process of creative writing begin?
* What's the essence of this process?
* What is the relation between the process and the final product?
* How does the interplay between the author's internal and external worlds come into play in both the process and the final product?
As the WikiLeaks documents continue to occupy a centre stage throughout the media, it is quite certain that humanistic and societal leitmotifs which have been stirred-up in our "collective unconscious" - such as "the traitor", "the hero", "corruption", "transparency", "morality", "responsibility", "mission", "justice", "revenge", "danger" and the like - will find their place in the creative process of many writers - whether consciously or unconsciously.
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