charlie b wrote:

The thing that's different is the lack of an UNDO - you can't
put a little wood back and rewrite the sentence with your
changes.

If you extend the analogy to say a typewriter and piece of paper,
there's a similarity with what can be "undone". For example, you can
undo a certain amount with whiteout or correction tape, similarly
with wood you can fill some holes with putty or a piece of
dowel, or maybe cut out a bad piece of a plank and then finger joint
in a piece from another. But if you make too many mistakes, you
have to just crumple up the paper and throw it away--likewise with
the wood you just have to start over again sometimes.

Now if you can figure out how to extend the analogy to word processing
and woodworking--I'd be really interested to know how.