The Book That Never Was...
Finishing...something I don't do very well.
I started a model railroad when I was in my early twenties. Never got it along to the point where trains actually ran on the rails.
I have started to write at least a dozen books. Never finished one of them (although it must be pointed out that most of them died of natural causes - that is, they just plain weren't any good...).
I feel like most everything I do that involves any creative expression - even my sermons, these blog posts, and the like - I feel like they're just not quite finished.
Always.
I guess I'm a tweaker. I think that's probably a derrogatory term for some kind of drug abuser or something - but, of course, I don't mean that.
I just need to adjust this and fix that and redo this and...
Things are never quite done.
John Lennon, it was reported in the Beatles Anthology, never considered a song "done" until it was recorded - and then, not always (note the two versions of Revolution, for example, though I think he thought the original was "done" because he really seemed to be beating up the single version).
Heh - not that I'm in league with Lennon, or anything. But I get that kind of attitude. There's always one more re-write, one more tweak, one more change here and there.
And I'm doing it right now. I have a project that is 95% done - and I'm avoiding finishing it by writing about...um...not finishing it...
And so it goes...
I started a model railroad when I was in my early twenties. Never got it along to the point where trains actually ran on the rails.
I have started to write at least a dozen books. Never finished one of them (although it must be pointed out that most of them died of natural causes - that is, they just plain weren't any good...).
I feel like most everything I do that involves any creative expression - even my sermons, these blog posts, and the like - I feel like they're just not quite finished.
Always.
I guess I'm a tweaker. I think that's probably a derrogatory term for some kind of drug abuser or something - but, of course, I don't mean that.
I just need to adjust this and fix that and redo this and...
Things are never quite done.
John Lennon, it was reported in the Beatles Anthology, never considered a song "done" until it was recorded - and then, not always (note the two versions of Revolution, for example, though I think he thought the original was "done" because he really seemed to be beating up the single version).
Heh - not that I'm in league with Lennon, or anything. But I get that kind of attitude. There's always one more re-write, one more tweak, one more change here and there.
And I'm doing it right now. I have a project that is 95% done - and I'm avoiding finishing it by writing about...um...not finishing it...
And so it goes...
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