Even though I'm a software engineer, I had the opportunity to study literature and practice writing under some remarkably amazing teachers and professors. Now,

Even though I'm a software engineer, I had the opportunity to study literature and practice writing under some remarkably amazing teachers and professors. Now, at fifty, I regularly practice that skill and it's served me quite well. The process for me starts with a strong realization, feeling or epiphany. The exercise, then, is to take that thought and scaffold it with words so that the entire thought is clearly understandable by anyone (and hopefully expressed with some cleverness). As David Lynch said, if you sit really still, those big ideas deep down there will start to surface and it's your job to make them real. They want to be something.