Good Is Not Finished
Segun Iwasanmi@iwasanmisegun212159
11 days ago
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I remember the first time someone told me, "This your story is good." The way I relaxed that day ehn, you'd think I had published and sold it, collected my money and was already spending it. I even closed the file like someone that had arrived.
Two days later I read it again and started seeing things. Places that dragged, sentences that said plenty but meant little, moments that should have hit but just passed like breeze. That "good" had made me blind temporarily and I nearly settled for it.
That's the same way some sisters (I won't mention names) tastes their soup halfway through cooking, smiles because it's coming together nicely, and turns off the fire too early. That last few minutes on heat was going to change everything, but they never gave it the chance.
Everytime I sit with someone's work for editing, I often find the real story hiding. It's in what they almost wrote. The sentence that was close but not quite there. The scene that had the right feeling but left too early. Wait, who said it doesn't matter, it matters oo, you mostly can't see them clearly in your own work because you're too close to it.
These days when someone tells me their work is already good, I just nod a little and smile. Because I know what that word can hide, and I know what the work can still become when someone decides not to stop there.
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