[hadestown/writing craft stuff] So I just started reading Working On a Song and the gd INTRO is giving me emotions bc. well, for reasons colorilluminates will get, I needed this bit

Looking back on these old drafts and even the orphans, I see that writing is more like gardening. You’re raking around in the dirt, pulling up weeds. Flowers you love and find beautiful die on you. But not for nothing; they go back into the soil, and they nourish it

. It’s the act of raking that prepares the ground, and it’s the seeds of those dead beautiful that replant themselves in it and eventually come up right. The “right” thing could not exits without the “wrong” ones.

ANAIS. YOU ALREADY CAME FOR MY HEART WITH YOUR SHOW, IT'S NOT FAIR OF YOU TO DO IT WHEN TALKING ABOUT THE PROCESS