Connections and Creativity

I find that part of the joy of revising is that you find connections emerging that you didn’t expect to find. The house that John and Martha buy turns out to have been previously owned by a couple named Myrna and Zeke who died in an automobile accident on a mad dash to the hospital. Scorpions turn out to have an attraction to candle wax, and red leaves were the main ingredient for the ink used in a famous journal kept by an anonymous online writing student. Or perhaps this is merely idle galumphing and playing bricoleur. That’s fine. So can you connect these? Olive with pimento burrs coal slag cracks in the sidewalk mismatched socks