I’ve been thinking about writing almost as far back as I’ve held a pen. It’s still spooky and fascinating to me that the right words, the right cadence, the right juxtaposition, among dozens more things, can instill nanoengineering-level exactitude, make you laugh out loud, or change your life. Then there’s what surrounds the writing: things like figuring out your audience, interviewing, learning to get out of your own way, and many other things people only learn by working the craft. Thoughts on making the music, from elementary scales to virtuoso performance.