Another example

This is another example of what I can't do but would someday like to be able to do. Tell stories. That's it. That's what I want to do. Wil phrases it so well in that entry I linked to. Tell stories and have people feel what I felt when it happened. Just tell stories.

I don't want to write Tom Clancy style novel. I wouldn't mind writing articles here and there to pay the bills. But I want to tell stories.

Now, how do I go about doing that? Or, rather, how do I go about learning to do that? How do I learn to observe a situation and then describe it so people feel like they are in it? As I was reading his entry I could actually see him on the patio picking yellow leaves off of his tomato plants. I could see the dog run out to the back fence after the lizard. Possibly because my dog does the same thing but with squirrels, but I could still see it.

How do I do that? Yes I know, practice. But before I can start to practice, don't I need to have some idea what I am doing?