The Details

Thinking and rethinking and revising and revisiting. It's a wonderful process of discovery. You pick the place, get there, unpack your bags, walk the sidewalks, hike the trails, smell the smells, eat the food, and then discover what's underneath the first impression.

This image is a piece plucked from an edit. It may work. Not sure about that, but I do like the leg and the elbow and the left right wave of fabric.

Francis Ford Coppola said a writer should write without editorial consideration. Don't even look at the words for 30 days, he said. Just drive the highway headlights on, no rearview in sight. Write and wait. I'm extrapolating here, embellishing a tad. But still, good advice. Coppola also said something I agreed with so much, I grabbed a pen to scribble it down: "Rewriting is just the middle name of writing."

Thanks to Blake and Ronnie for today and the moment that led to this discovery.