A state of inevitability

In 2013, composer John Williams said this about scoring films:

“Sometimes, it takes weeks of changing things and moving them around, and a few simple notes, to eventually guide it into a state of inevitability, where the ear doesn’t have any argument any longer about the path we’ve taken melodically.”

His words are about writing music, but they’re analogous to many creative processes. We find our way and find our way and massage the work into a state of inevitability — to a place where there’s a kind of agreement about the journey.

Life can even be this way too, where it takes time testing, shifting, and moving things around until they’re just right and we’re at peace with the path.