11Planting Your Work

Midori Evans

DOI: 10.4324/9781003351344-11

Growing a garden is a labor of love made up of pruning, tending, deadheading, soil amendments and more. Even with our best intentions, the unknowns associated with caring for a garden are many: scourges of beetles, an early season windstorm that takes out the peonies, the dreaded gray mold. We may never get our garden looking quite as good as we may wish. Yet we gardeners all persevere, buying that one special fertilizer or reshaping the topiary for the hundredth time.

What does all this have to do with finishing a creative project? Isn’t this book about getting to that point where it really IS done, where we can dispense with our play, our choreographed dance, our final book ...

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