Is It Like?

Originally uploaded by Runs With Scissors.

Is digital photography like writing?

I write and cross things out and discard words without much thought - - what happens to the blurries, poorly exposed and missed shots that out number the images that seem refined and ready for 'publication'? Are these like the pieces of writing that have found their way through a fine process of revision?

Are the smaller pieces of writing no less valuable as the larger, well crafted ones they later become, sometimes?