I have to laugh at myself.
It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.
We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.
I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.
Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.
I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.