There are fundamental similarities in any creative process, I think.

It doesn't seem that similar to my own writing process, though. I mean, some things are obviously the same, such as contemplating the subject and brainstorming, but I think I tend to be both less intuitive and less structured in my fic writing than with my symbolic jewellery. Or maybe I'm intuitive and structured in a different way... I mean, with my jewellery, there is a lot of "sit back and let my subconcious mull over this for a while" in the early stages - a lot of "letting go". And then when I'm at the point where the concepts jell, I can plan out the whole look of the work. While with story-writing, on the one hand, I can't go forward until I have an end-point, and I like to have a high-level outline, it squashes my creativity if the outline is too detailed, which means that, on the paragraph-by-paragraph level, I'm making it up as I go along.

Maybe I'm putting too fine a point on it - but the two processes feel different to me, even if they aren't that different.