What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.
“In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.”
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”