The phrase "are about to create" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is imminent or will happen very soon, often in the context of plans or actions being initiated.
Example: "We are about to create a new marketing strategy that will enhance our brand visibility."
Alternatives: "are on the verge of creating" or "are ready to create".
In trying to contain one refugee crisis, Europe and Pakistan are about to create another.
Let's go along with Mr Mankiw's thought experiment: Steve Jobs, J.K. Rowling and Steven Spielberg are about to create their staggeringly popular products, which will increase inequality because everyone wants to buy them.
George Germon and Johanne Killeen, prominent Providence chefs who own the restaurant Al Forno, which has operated for 28 years in another part of the city, are about to create a new venture in Downcity.
Permafrost and Siberia Methane releases are about to create an enormous CH1 release, some researchers consider that it will be as big as all carbon humans have release, all at once.
"The financial problems that sponsors are facing are about to create a windfall for insiders," said Alan J. Pomerantz, a real estate finance lawyer who represents lenders and is seeing firsthand how much financial pressure certain sponsors are under.
State governments, and now the Australian Medical Association, are warning that the $57b in cuts in Abbott's first budget are about to create a funding "crisis", a crisis that will mean patients wait longer for treatment and some services will have to close.
"We're about to create a new glass ceiling," said Assemblywoman Marcia A. Karrow, a Republican from Hunterdon County.
Amazingly, Congress may be about to create a whole new economic problem by voluntarily defaulting on the national debt.
After that, they would be able to communicate wirelessly only through a network that they were about to create themselves.
