The Johnson O’Connor Research Foundation defines ideaphoria as “the ability to produce ideas quickly.”
This is a trait I’ve never possessed. I’ve got the “ability to produce ideas” part down, but I’ve never had “quickly.” I think this may be my biggest problem as a creative writer. I’m fairly good at the destructive aspects of writing – finding specific problems in a piece as I read it – but generating the raw material has always come slowly.
You might expect this would make me a lot better at revision than composition, but in practice I’ve found that revision requires almost as much creativity as the first draft – at least for novel-writing.
Fortunately for me, writing is not a race. The ideas come if I’m patient; and I am; and they do.
What’s your ideaphoria like: high or low? How does it affect you?
Brian D. Buckley 
Hmm I wonder how “quickly” does it make it ideaphoria and if the quality of the ideas matter.
I don’t know whether or not I get new ideas quickly. I know it’s difficult for me to write a story on the spot, but its mostly because good ideas don’t come quickly rather than ideas period.
I mean, I get tons of ideas all the time. But most don’t go anywhere. And sometimes I have a torrent of ideas, then nothing for a while, then more again.
So…yeah, no idea what’s going on in my brain.
I agree rewriting requires just as much creativity as writing does, even more so because there’s more pressure. Like I feel a scene isn’t working and I need a new idea to replace it, but I’m determined it to be a much better idea that the old one and that makes it harder to come forth.
But Ideaphoria seems like something I very much wish to develop on a constant basis lol.
Yeah…I actually took a test on it once, and at the time they were just measuring the sheer volume of ideas, not the quality. Though I imagine if there were any objective way to measure idea quality, that would be a factor too.