110113 #fox Learning to write has nothing to do with style or ornamentation or cleverness or being literary or any of the thousand things you and most people think of when you think of "art". It has everything to do with telling the truth, using whatever words are at hand when you need them. This is the source of the urge you've been getting to kick dribble pass sneak or punt past all the attractive trivialities you might think you're supposed to want to think you want to write about, and actually tell the one thing that's scary hidden shameful avoided or in any way REAL. it's getting to where your life literally depends on being able to do that. You have been ruled by illusion. Use the writing to tell yourself the essential story of the dream you're waking up from, every day.