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Old 07-05-2006, 03:57 PM   #5
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Perhaps the fun is in the process, the pride in the product, the joy in the entire effort. Why two opposing camps? Seems as though carving these into discrete, polarized parts misses something essential.

My beginning brush stroke is the first part of my product (or more accurately, my intended result). The product is the last step in my process. The parts show in the whole, so I try to use good parts. The revisions I make in a short story, including the deletions, are within the final draft. The first sentence is the story, as is the last. Changing either produces a different story. Polished sentences tell a tale different from less deliberate expression, even if the morals of the stories are pretty much the same.

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