1. Get inspired
2. Understand the building blocks
3. Draw a sketch
4. Crochet shapes that match the sketch
5. Make a second version
6. Get the pattern tested
7. Type up & publish your design

When you know your life matches your values, it’s easier to let other people’s perceptions fall to the side.

Television alters the meaning of “being informed” by creating misleading information: misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information that creates the illusion of knowing something. We lose the sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?

• If it doesn’t induce the reader to proceed to the second sentence, your work is dead. Of such a progression of sentences, each tugging the reader forward until he is hooked, a writer constructs that fateful unit, the “lead.”


• Do not count on the reader to stick around. Readers want to know very soon what’s in it for them.