- work out what it is you want to say
- use that as the assumption for what you do say
- discover your greatest enemy
- give him your name
- construct a good guitar
- take 6 steel strings
- stretch them ringing-tight between the world you want and the world you see
- if they don’t break, play something, gently at first, then see how loudly you can fill that distance
- defragment feelings and float the true ones to the top — good dream helps
- relax, but not like a bag falling open, not spilling yourself
- punctuate. act like this is permanent.