Move It Around

Ingrid (Belgium)

[reflection] 

In terms of bringing more movement in my writing - I am experimenting. For the moment, I need to cut 3000 words from my text (yikes!!). It is a very physical thing, perhaps, to chop that many words.

So I had a look at the sorts of axes one can use in the real world and actions we can do with them: hatchets, felling axes, splitting mauls, tomahawks, double-bit axes. I loved to read that you can lift, swing, throw your axe a the log or a target, with brute force or technique. Some axes are better for making rough cuts in small logs, others for cutting down a tree (maybe I need a chainsaw for parts of my text), cutting branches for firewood, and chopping across or along the grain. I know some sections will require me to go at them with both hands over my head and releasing the axe towards my word target. I can do this. I need to do 'thinning cutting' in my young forest - lowering the density of extra words and ideas, harvesting the least promising ones - if I want the best ones to thrive.