有次我在一本關於園林設計的書，看到時裝設計師Bill Blass的花園裏的一個佈置：樹根旁邊的一大塊人像石雕的殘骸，如果落在別人手中應會被扔掉，但在Bill Blass手中卻成為給花園增添夢幻氛圍的工具。

後來我思考如何rewrite學生寫的一段過於平鋪直敘introduction時（see below），就想起Bill Blass的石雕佈置：學生文中提到的「Thalassophobia」（恐海症），雖然是心理學術語，但聽起來像古希臘神話裏的仕女名字，如果我的rewrite運用這個想像出來的元素，產生的效果可以跟石雕殘骸類似，給原文增添幾分夢幻：

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Student’s copy
When friends asked me to join them on a boat trip, I said yes, even though I had Thalassophobia (fear of deep waters). When I went on the trip, I was really nervous. I was hoping I could just stay on the boat, but was eventually forced to swim due to unforeseen reasons.

My rewrite
My dread of the sea may have had a fancy name – psychologists have christened it Thalassophobia (sounds like the name of a beautiful maiden in a Greek myth, right?) – but being afflicted by it was no picnic. There was a time when the mere act of watching submarine documentaries was enough to set off a panic attack in me. Yet I was eventually cured of my neurosis, in the most unexpected of circumstances.

所以寫作靈感可以來自任何地方。我每天都會給我的腦袋添置各式各樣看似不相干的信息，因我知總有一天能用上它們。