In this case for the sentence to "work" is that it's confusing, anything that creates the effect (explicitly wanted or not) works. Like the single sentence of a program participating to an obfuscation programming context must work in order to create confusion. I left the artistic part of the process out of the post because in the artistic process the similarities are very far, IMHO. I think I use a creative process while programming as well, but is not alike to the one used to write.