I don't really have any advice, other than to say it's the most appallingly difficult thing I've ever tried to do and I wish I had a better idea of how to do it. In my experience what you end up with is the by-product of your failure to achieve what you set out to do. It may turn out OK, but it wasn't what you meant and you've no idea how you got there.

Ha, but my life is a box of wormgears.

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.

Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are.

Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.

A theory of the universe that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for, it will disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.

Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things