. "But that knowledge is a skill, and that skill is developed by hard graft -- not just the practice of making stuff up and writing it down, but the practice of testing one's writing, i.e. pausing, rereading, asking the hard questions, doing so habitually with what you write until it is second nature (c.f. decision as intuitive, instinctual, instantaneous.) Asking the hard questions is a struggle at f" . . .