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Message: <blockquote data-quote="soviet" data-source="post: 9882473" data-attributes="member: 6925338">This only makes sense though if you get a fully-formed idea in your head of a poem, a piece of music, or a picture, and then the implementation part is simply the act of transcribing that defined thing into an external medium.That's certainly not how it works for me. When I sit down to write part of an RPG book I might have a rough idea of what that section should cover or include, but I don't know the details or the wording or the structure. Balancing things out ("I need another example here, that sentence needs to be longer, the rhythm here is wrong, what if this happened instead') is a constant process. There is no space between 'I have a complete idea' and 'now I must transcribe it'.Similarly with poems, I've never sat down and planned to write a poem. What's happened is that a particular image or phrase has struck me, often out on a walk, and then I've had to sit down and write down the lines as they flow out of me, bearing in mind a sense of flow and structure, and then later I've refined that draft into a more balanced poem by adding bits or editing bits (not much, normally they flow out fairly complete). Unless you count typing them up, again I don't see any part of the process that is transcription of an idea rather than development or refinement of an idea.I paint warhammer models. I don't think I've ever sat down to paint something with a full vision or plan in mind. I will have a rough idea of what I want but then when I start to block in the main colours I will realise 'oh actually the straps need to be a warm brown rather than black, to contrast with the armour' or whatever. It's fairly unusual not to overpaint at least one small part of the model to improve the overall balance of the colour scheme. Similarly, by now I have a bunch of recipes I know will create an effective gold, an effective red, etc. But it's quite unusual to paint something and not end up adding at least one new recipe to my arsenal.</blockquote>

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