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An Aside: On Writing

I have likened writing to other crafts, such as carpentry, or sculpting.  A thought just occurred to me-if you consider writing as compared to sculpture, the sculptor starts with a block from which they remove material until their vision is revealed.  Writing can be similar-seized by inspiration, we throw blocks of words down, which we then edit until the vision is perfected.