You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
If any player has a bad game it's there in the back of your mind in the next game. There's always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.
Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

