then another, then another, you stand back, you add, you take away. it's the same thing with writing. you get up every day and you sit down at your desk and you put down a word, or a sentence, or, on a good day (i work very slowly) maybe a half page. you add a word here, you take one away, you sketch out a scene, it's all wrong, it needs to be a little warmer, a little cooler, you change it, it's still wrong... it's just not that different from painting, really, the process of writing. 