Writing Lessons From Ice Sculpting

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Imagine a block of ice. You take your chisel and hammer and you go to work, making small nicks and grooves. You know what it looks like, you just have to get there. The first thing you do is knock out the basic shape of the sculpture. We’ll say it’s a banana. You like bananas, right? It’s a damn banana.

That basic shape? That’s your outline. You just outlined how you’re going to carve a banana out of a block of ice.

The next step is to start making...