It starts with something to play with. Then it builds into an enormous flower of connections and surprises.
The problem isn’t speeding up — it’s calming down the circuits of the brain that are overworked and over-wired.
A prompt here, a rough sentence there, stock phrases, we inject certainty onto the page. But the dominance comes later through the editing itself.
Once we loosen up the control and do the work, we realize that perfection never meets the maker with great exactness. Everything is at first messy, as it should be.
The hardest part is calming down enough to zoom in and see it out.
And then we get to it — we write.
