Another starry night

It was all change until the very last second                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 September 28, 2023 | [Read Online]( Another starry night It was all change until the very last second [Cole Schafer]( September 28, 2023 [fb]( [tw]( [in]( [email](mailto:?subject=Post%20from%20The%20Process.&body=Another%20starry%20night%3A%20It%20was%20all%20change%20until%20the%20very%20last%20second%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.getthesticky.com%2Fp%2Fstarry-night) It’s said that Ernest Hemingway rewrote the ending of [A Farewell To Arms]( approximately 47 times. I think about this when I step into someone’s home. The interior of a person’s home is a collection of choices; choices to paint the walls an off-white, cover up the hardwood with Persian rugs, leave the Robin egg blue tile in the guest bathroom undisturbed, forfeit the headboard behind the bed, hang the charcoaled nude sketch over the clawfoot tub and, of course, the clawfoot tub. However, what isn’t always apparent upon entering a person’s home are the revisions. In other words, the choices that were almost made but then later revised for one reason or another. The low-sitting barrel chair in the corner of the study that didn’t look quite right in burnt orange so it was exchanged for olive green. And, the study itself, that was nearly not a study at all but instead a miniature gymnasium that would’ve housed a lonely Peloton bike. Revisions are as much a part of the creative process as decisions. They just don’t get the attention they deserve because they’re more difficult to spot. In Verlyn Klinkenborg’s [magnificent manual on sentence writing](, he romanticizes the revisions that are so often overlooked… “ If you could look through the spaces between the sentences, through the door into the writing room, into that writer’s head, you’d see that every word was different once and that the writer was contemplating an incalculable number of differences, feeling her way among the alternatives that presented themselves, until settling upon words that were finally written down, then revised over and over again––before they were printed, published, reprinted in anthologies, and treated as though they’d been carved in stone. It was all change until the very last sentence. ” After Vincent Van Gogh amputated his own ear as a gift to a prostitute he had fallen in love with, he was sent to an insane asylum to lick his wounds. During his recovery, Van Gogh looked out the east-facing window of his room, which he would later recreate in a painting. Never able to get it quite right, Van Gogh painted Starry Night 21 times. What nobody tells you about Starry Night, is what Van Gogh chose to revise. In not one of his 21 variations, will you find the iron bars that kept him from jumping out the window. By [Cole Schafer]( P.S. Did this newsletter leave you feeling inspired? Tell someone to [subscribe](. [tw]( [ig]( [in]( Update your email preferences or unsubscribe [here]( © 2023 The Process 228 Park Ave S, #29976, New York, New York 10003, United States [[beehiiv logo]Powered by beehiiv](