I know other blogs have covered this topic, but here's my take on it. I got thinking about the comparison since recently taking up knitting after a year or two off to focus on writing and getting through my day job in the classroom. Now with a week or so of recuperation time on my hands, it seemed like a good time to pick up the needles again. So I was noticing that when I start a new piece of knitting, as with writing a story, I have a vague idea of its shape, where it might go, but that's about all. I don't know how it's going to turn out until I actually get to the end. I often have to stop and restart a few times to get the look and feel right. Plus, with both activities there's always the need to find the extra motivation at the end to go back and weave in all the loose threads so it doesn't look scruffy even though all you want to do is bask the feeling of accomplishment from having actually completed something that looks vaguely like a scarf or story.
(P.S. If you're interested in those other blogs, ask and I can point you to them; I just shut all the tabs before capturing the addresses, sorry - it is midnight.)
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