The Meandering Writer

 I get one broad idea and then it goes through shape-shifting stages as I restructure it via multiple drafts, tossing once "brilliant" ideas and replacing them with, so I hope, better ones, recalling observations from related areas that may just be barely related.

I'm preparing a Substack essay that began in a very different territory than the one it's likely to end up in.

That's fine and necessary.

At least for me.