Metamorphose -

Nature provides the most dramatic visual cues for what it means to truly change.

: A first draft is often "half-formed glob of story" that must be sculpted and polished into something readable. metamorphose

: This stage is often confusing and lacks a clear "shape." Nature provides the most dramatic visual cues for

True transformation requires a period of "dissolution." Before a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, it literally turns into formless liquid inside its cocoon. metamorphose