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17.8: The Alchemy of Creativity

Writing Excuses

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The Lightning in a Bottle Feeling

Most of my alha moments, most of my lightning and bottle moments, are actually in revisions. Drafting is a kind of a slog for me. And it is in the revisions that i catch the lightning and put it back like i drafted. I wanted to shoe hornet into third person, limited a p o v, and it just didn't work until i pulled it forward into a more immediate tense. It's not always just about executing something; sometimes it's finding the right framework so that the executin so you can't execute it at all.

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