The narrative trajectory of someone's creative journey — the chapters of a thinker's evolution from scattered concepts to focused vision. An ideation arc tracks how a person or project moves through raw inspiration, messy exploration, refinement, and eventual clarity. Borrowed from storytelling structure and dropped into creative/startup discourse, it gives the messy process of idea development a satisfying shape in retrospect. You rarely know you're in your ideation arc while it's happening; you only name it afterward when the pattern becomes visible.
Looking back, the whole pivot started during my ideation arc last summer when I filled three notebooks.
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