Creative writing

I don't really have much time to post, but I finished the Eicha I was writing and am now in the proofreading stage. Safrut usually isn't associated with creativity. You basically copy letter for letter and if you try to play games on your own the work becomes worthless. Last week I found a repeated word in the first column and that's where the creativity came in.

Ignore the x in the margin. That was a different error already fixed. This picture will also be used for a later post on chok Tochos. On the right side towards the middle of the picture you will see the word אני and a smudge. The words אלה אני were written there before though I don't have pictures of the rest of the process. I had to erase everything, and then rewrite אני leaving an unsightly and almost certainly passul space. The solution: See that ב right after אני? Well...

Still unsightly, now kosher. So, now you know. Safrut does involve creative writing.