A woman at the coffee place near my studio asked me what my process is. She said it like it's a thing you just have, like a phone number. I said "uh" and then I talked for four minutes and I could hear myself not answering the question.

Real answer: I don't have one. I have a floor with charcoal dust on it and a bad habit of starting at 11pm. I did try to be a person with a process once. Made a whole chart. Times of day, warmups, all of it. Lasted five days and then I got obsessed with a shoulder and the chart became a thing to move from one side of the table to the other.

The thing nobody says is that for some of us the process IS the mess, and every time I try to tidy it up the work gets polite. I don't want polite. I've made some of my best marks after an hour of just standing there looking and hating it.

Anyway I'm not asking for your process, I don't think I could use it. But I am curious whether anyone actually has one, or if we're all just pretending in front of the people who ask.