Nor is this a class in writing, beyond the unassailable condition of words as the best vehicles available to express our opinions. Of course, great prose and render electric the most fallow of ideas. While I’m not here to make you into writers, there’s little I love, little that moves me, as much as good writing. The following implication contains most of what I know about how it’s done: Read. Read good stuff. Read for love. Read out loud. Read like you’d kill to have written it yourself.