Very beneficial to my thinking processes has been thinking in
   terms of loops. I start. I make a wide loop - as WIDE AS I CAN -
   and I go as far as I can, then come back again to the beginning,
   pulling in all sorts of stuff into the little stitching hole
   that I'm pulling my threads of reality into to form a lockstitch
   as the needle goes back through the fabric for air again, only
   to form the next loop-that-gathers and ties.