The idea for this post comes from something I wrote yesterday on my other blog, the GreyWorld Project blog.

I quote myself…

I’ve got my story, I’ve got my characters, now it’s just a matter of writing the thing down – mechanics, more than creativity

But then I thought

but it’s not really like that – there is a connection between the mechanical act of writing, the fingers dancing (or plodding) on the keyboard and invention… hmmm, I’ll have to write a post about that

And this post is that post about that.

Let’s state the topic in a less confused way – there is a connection between the mechanical act of writing and the creative act of writing.
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