Oh, Jeff is absolutely right. It's not that I don't value other parts of the process (to use a double negative). I think there's a lot to be said for pre-writing, discussing, and basically working through what you're writing about. So even for us seasoned writers who do get a lot of writing down on paper... if we get out of the habit (or "practice" of it, as my mentor Mark called it yesterday), sometimes it's easy to get embroiled in those other things, thinking they're the same as writing.

Or, at least, such is true for me.

(And yes, you made sense. *g*)