Chisel away

Once read a comment about a great sculptor, Michelangelo probably. It was to the effect that a sculptor doesn\’t create a work, rather the work already exists, inside a piece of stone, and the sculptor\’s role is to remove all the extraneous material until the work is revealed.

Something like that for my writing. The piece of writing exists in my head each time (and is desperate to get out) and the writing process consists of getting those thoughts and words and images and ideas in order, and remove all the extraneous thoughts and ideas and words and images from the completed work.