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What knitting has taught me about writing

A Lit Hub essay uses knitting as a working metaphor for revision - ripping back a row, correcting the stitch, rebuilding the pattern - because both crafts reward patience and tolerate redoing.

It's also about having a tactile hobby that isn't another screen when writing stalls. For readers who treat drafting as shameful waste, the yarn-and-needle framing reframes mistakes as normal material rather than moral failure.

(Shortened and summarised to avoid devaluing the source)
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