This is rarely talked about, at least not around me where I look. When you make something, something expressive, you are going to be misinterpreted. It is inevitable. I'm not saying lay down your white-out brush and never attempt clarity. But if you are always breaking and papering over and whitewashing your efforts to make sure they cannot possibly be misread, what you are doing is technical writing, not expressive writing.

Someone's going to misread you. The best you can do is the best you can do. Sometimes you will have to leave in the possibility of an interpretation you don't like, one you see, one that's painful to know is latent in this, because you do not have the skill to recapture what you would lose if you surgically removed this possibility.

There is no perfect creation. The closest creation to perfect is the millionth, not the millionth revision of one.