A comment by a fellow creative, 
, with whom I connected, today, gave me food for thoughts.
This is what she said:
A fellow writer, how great life can be! I can relate to this, perfectionism can get in the way sometimes. I only write when I'm ready to edit at the same time, if that makes sense haha if you need help with anything on that matter, I'm totally up for it!
The lovely response of hers, as shared above, was a reply to this comment of mine, where I spoke about the 'beauty in imperfection':
Although I still am quite the perfectionist when it comes to ( book ) writing.
In fact, that is probably the reason why I struggle to finish my first to be published book. That and the fact that I have always been more interested in the process than in the result/ end product.
Let's be honest...
I seem to be always editing my book, instead of writing: cutting out little parts, adding others, correcting typos, improving readibility and so on and so forth.
Now this might sound logical ( to you ), as I'm in literally in the editing phase - as we speak - but I tend to do this too, when I'm doing the actual 'writing'.
In other words: my writing is often more like rewriting.
Perhaps I'm more of a sculptor than a writer.
Sometimes I wonder if these are just the traits of a perfectionist, a nitpicker, a grammar Nazi or that this is just an everday thing for most writers around the globe.
So if you're a writer yourself, please enlighten me? Am I just weird or is this totally normal?
Are you a writer or a sculptor?
Today was that kind of day. I spent a little bit of time editing/ rewriting / hammering andchiseling away at my Hypersensitvosaurus and Cold Turkey story.
Sooner or later, I will reach the day where there's no more sculpting to be done. The day when the beautiful finished piece hidden underneath is laid bare and needs no more digging.
Probably that isn't exactly how things go, but I will definitely reach a point where enough is enough and it's time to label this as finished. Time to get this out into the world and move on to book # 2.
TO BE CONVINUED...
P.S. I just realize that, back in the days when I was a filmmaker, the editing process always took up way more time than the actual filming. I guess it's far from unusual to go about it this way :<)
P.P.S. The drawing above this little rant of a post was made by me, just now, in MS Paint, using my laptop's touchpad and no, Hypersensitivosaurus isn't hammering away at a gravestone. It's just a stone or, perhaps, he's 'writing' Runes on there ;<)