by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
Our works need not be final; we need not be finished with anything. Using a couple of magic words, we can give ourselves a choice of coming back to our work. <\/strong><\/p>\n Consider the statement:<\/p>\n I am finished with this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Writers often say this. (I’ll use the example of writers and their writing. I could mention\u00a0 artists and their painting, carpenters and their woodwork, and so on.)<\/p>\n Well, some writers often say this. Some other writers cannot bring themselves to say it. They want to edit their writing one more time – then one more time after that and then one more… And then they want to let the writing set for a few days before they read it again. Being “finished” so is “final.” I mean, if someone else reads the writing and feels that it should be changed…sigh, well, the writer failed at being perfect.<\/p>\n Enter the magic words “for now.” Using these words, the above can become.<\/p>\n I am finished with this for now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ah, now the writing is not final. I have given myself permission to come back to the writing later. If someone else reads the writing and suggests changes, all the better as I may come back to the writing and change it per the suggestions. Then again, I may never come back to the writing. It is my choice, a choice I gave myself using two little magic words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Our works need not be final; we need not be finished with anything. Using a couple of magic words, we can give ourselves a choice of coming back to our work. Consider the statement: I am finished with this. Writers often say this. (I’ll use the example of writers and their writing. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,61,5],"tags":[173,181,128],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choose","category-magic","category-writing","tag-choose","tag-magic","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}