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Alison Acheson's avatar

We really do need to write whatever it is we need to. Each project, finished or unfinished or burned, leads to the next with renewed and new knowledge. A good post, thank you!

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Alex Learmont's avatar

Thanks for sharing - I enjoyed reading it. However, I think there may be a third possibility - that ideas are alive and like to biding their time. I find that some unfinished pieces (admittedly not all) go into a stasis during which they seem to develop on their own - Given time they will come back of their own accord with the wrinkles ironed out. I don't see them as text in a file, or paper in a drawer - the real storage is in the writer's head , where, Subconsciously, these ideas are in constant, if slow, development. Like live creatures, it's best to leave them alone and they'll come home, wagging their tales behind them!

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