single minded

heard: "the one, well, the only lesson i've ever learned about writing was if your story isn't working, get rid of the part you love the most, or the part you started writing the story for and everything will fall into place."
(totally paraphrased, by the way)

i'm not going to tell you where i heard the above, because it's too embarassing.
let's just pretend i heard it somewhere credible.
in any case, it made me look up from what i was doing and go, "....hu." not because i fancy myself a writer. when i'd have to write stories in school, they'd usually ended with one of the characters waking up and realizing it was all a dream.
but, well, for example, i have to have that mentality at work pretty consistently. not with the payroll, or the general lackeying, but with my actual designing stuff. i tend to start out with an idea i'm really excited (dare i say "jazzed") about and then somewhere around the middle i get blocked. seriously blocked. and it's usually not until i throw my original genius idea ("gingham! hundreds of gingham labels as far as the eye can see! it's brilliant!) out that it all comes together.

hu. getting rid of something you're being stubbornly single minded about. so you can move on.
there's, like, a life lesson there.
or something.