Many writers on Libby Larsen analyze her creative process for the answers but unfortunately; the answer is not an easy one. Larsen owes much of her creativity to her hearing, meaning that when she is writing a new work, she hears in her mind what colors the composition makes. When she is working, she approaches her ideas from color and form, the “two important shaping elements that I consider at the outset of any piece,” no matter what genre she is writing. When asked to define her idea of the creative process she answered, “It is struggling toward an unnamed, inarticulate, unseen, unheard image, feeling. And trying again, again, and again somehow to get that thing out of you.” She continues “Each one of us develop processes as we go along, but never get there.” Larsen often doubts her work and is challenged by her ego. She believes every creative personality needs an enormous ego. She says, “Ego is a good