My personal experience with writing

Writing to me is can be equated to sculpting. When the project is first begun, a general idea of what shape the artist intends the sculpture to possess. For example, sculptor sees a majestic horse and would like to immortalize its graceful figure. The block of stone, in due time, begins to resemble an outline of a horse. However, in the process of sculpting, the artist, in a fit of passion, strikes the hammer down too swiftly and creates a line down its side. The sculptor realizes that the sculpture looks better now, and utilizes the line, until eventually it turns into a different beast, a zebra, perhaps. Writing can start with a relatively clear idea of what the desired end outcome is, but the act of writing can create a beast with a life of its own, and take on a completely different direction, a journey which we are privy to accompany.