You know what I've said directly about this post, and all your talk about writing, but in general, it is how your explorations give me permission that's striking me the hardest... giving permission is that enabling catalytic act that gets you over the hump. I'll still never micromanage or obsess... I have academic writing to do that with. But now when I see writing like making pizza in the kitchen it WILL be less of a mysterious act than a well prepared performance of apparently random acts and decisions as the chaotic search for order and completeness predicated on the intersection of the ad libbing of a well planned scenario.

Now see what you've started?