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Another brief Update on my Dino Writing - Am I a Writer or a Sculptor?
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##### A comment by a fellow creative, @beautifulwreck , with whom I connected, today, gave me food for thoughts. 

This is what she said:

> A fellow writer, how great life can be! I can relate to this, perfectionism can get in the way sometimes. I only write when I'm ready to edit at the same time, if that makes sense haha if you need help with anything on that matter, I'm totally up for it!

The lovely response of hers, as shared above, was a reply to this comment of mine, where I spoke about the 'beauty in imperfection':

>  **Although I still am quite the perfectionist when it comes to ( book ) writing.**
In fact, that is probably the reason why I struggle to finish my first to be published book. That and the fact that I have always been more interested in the process than in the result/ end product.

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Let's be honest...

I seem to be always editing my book, instead of writing: cutting out little parts, adding others, correcting typos, improving readibility and so on and so forth.

Now this might sound logical ( to you ), as I'm in literally in the editing phase - as we speak - but I tend to do this too, when I'm doing the actual 'writing'. 

In other words: my writing is often more like rewriting.

###### Perhaps I'm more of a sculptor than a writer.

Sometimes I wonder if these are just the traits of a perfectionist, a nitpicker, a grammar Nazi or that this is just an everday thing for most writers around the globe.

So if you're a writer yourself, please enlighten me? Am I just weird or is this totally normal? 

#### Are you a writer or a sculptor?

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Today was that kind of day. I spent a little bit of time editing/ rewriting / hammering andchiseling away at my *Hypersensitvosaurus and Cold Turkey* story.

Sooner or later, I will reach the day where there's no more sculpting to be done. The day when the beautiful finished piece hidden underneath is laid bare and needs no more digging.

Probably that isn't exactly how things go, but I will definitely reach a point where enough is enough and it's time to label this as finished. Time to get this out into the world and move on to book # 2.

###### TO BE CONVINUED...

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P.S. I just realize that, back in the days when I was a filmmaker, the editing process always took up way more time than the actual filming. I guess it's far from unusual to go about it this way :<)

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P.P.S. The drawing above this little rant of a post was made by me, just now, in MS Paint, using my laptop's touchpad and no, Hypersensitivosaurus isn't hammering away at a gravestone. It's just a stone or, perhaps, he's 'writing' Runes on there ;<)  
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@beautifulwreck ·
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> **Perhaps I'm more of a sculptor than a writer**

Couldn't have said it better. Although we have to be patient or we end up with no clay/stone/words haha it has happened to me, and that eventually leads me to quit writing completely for a few months, or even years. 

This time I'm being extremely patient with my ideas. I keep a notepad and write whatever, whenever it pops up in there. Then, I take time to edit, later, and/or continue developing the idea. It has helped drive my insane perfectionism into ease haha

I'm growing curious by the minute, looking forward to admiring that sculpture/book of yours!
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@vincentnijman ·
>  it has happened to me, and that eventually leads me to quit writing completely for a few months, or even years.

I get that feeling. For your information, I started on what led to this book, in November 2019 ( shortly after, what I like to call "The Thing" changed the world ). I have asked myself, several times, if there was a purpose in writing a / this book. My book changed multiple times and transmorphed in what it is now.

> This time I'm being extremely patient with my ideas. I keep a notepad and write whatever, whenever it pops up in there. Then, I take time to edit, later, and/or continue developing the idea. It has helped drive my insane perfectionism into ease haha

That sure helps :<) I have a bunch of notepads and I sketch, draw and paint dinos whenever I feel the need. Just writng and no visual expression isn't enough for me. I have been combining the drawn and the written since I was able to write ;<) 

> I'm growing curious by the minute, looking forward to admiring that sculpture/book of yours!

If you scroll through my blog you will find many, many pieces of my sculpture ;<)

Hasta la vista! 



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@beautifulwreck ·
Well, don't judge too harshly when I scroll down through your content and start leaving comments all over the place hahaha

> I have been combining the drawn and the written since I was able to write

Me too, but had stopped doing that somewhere along the way, not sure why. Now that I'm back to it, I feel I can say so much more.
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@gonzo · (edited)
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I love the writing part, but if it's more than a few pages the editing can be very daunting. The problem is that everything needs trimming usually by 50% or the story will be way too wordy. 

And for those times that I just posted it: now every time I see it in my feed, I get a shameful feeling.
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@vincentnijman ·
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> I love the writing part, but if it's more than a few pages the editing can be very daunting. 

It is more than a few pages. Then again, the original never released novel that transmorphed into this was 50k words and as it was written in a forced way ( during NaNoWriMo 2019 ), it felt uneditable. Compared to that, this should be doable.

I feel I am back in the year 2010, where I spent months editing a couple of hours of video footage in a 12 minutes short film. The difference being that this isn't a movie ;<)

> And for those times that I just posted it: now every time I see it in my feed, I get a shameful feeling.


No need to feel ashamed of your past. It's proof that you actually grow.

Nice to see you pop up in my feed. I had lost track of you and your writing :<)

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> Nice to see you pop up in my feed. I had lost track of you and your writing :<)

Thank you!

Last year, I was blinded due to too much pressure in my head, so I wasn't able to use the computer. 

Do you ever write 50 word stories? 

Repeatedly writing in that fashion helped me so much, because my stories used to be way to wordy and a 50 word story is like 99% editing lol

Have you ever thought abought hosting a 50 word story contest? 

If you did I would be all over it, I love writing them, but my vision just isn't good enough to read them in a timely fashion.
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@inuke ·
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Wow!!! Bro, I missed so many blogs. It's nice to see your book in editing phase. But  from what I read. It is seems like you are camping on editing grounds.

I am happy for you.

Hoping to get back to writing soon. With a new strategy. :-)

Cheers!!! 

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@vincentnijman ·
> Wow!!! Bro, I missed so many blogs

Just a 100 or so ;<)

> But from what I read. It is seems like you are camping on editing grounds.

What can I say... 

I am an experience camper. Went camping with my family for about a month, every Summer holiday, for about 20 years in a row. 

> Hoping to get back to writing soon. With a new strategy. :-)

I am looking forward to that :<)
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@rufans ·
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Looks like you’re trying to make your first book as perfect as it can be which is why you kept on editing  it and never published it ( a loop)
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@vincentnijman ·
Yup, that's kind of what is happening. As you can see in my latest post ( posted about an hour ago ), I am not always a perfectionist. I am though when something is my 'first' ( serious ) project.
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@ryivhnn ·
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Sounds about normal to me.  I have the hot phase where I will just write, and then when I come back to it I'll jump between just writing and editing the crap out of whatever was there previously.

The hardcore editing will come after I'm done, but nothing is safe.

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@vincentnijman ·
I was kind of hoping for such kind of a response ( from you )

Thank you! :<)
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