I'm pulling out the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work.

Okay, so today, many years ago, we used to do these talks in R&D where different designers would pick a topic and then give a speech to the rest of the designers on the topic.

And at one point, I took a thing called the rest of the designers on the topic.

And at one point, I took a thing called the Ten Principles for Good Design by a designer named Dieter Rums, who is an industrial designer.

And I talked about how his ten principles for designing things like lamps apply to designing magic.

And then I ended up writing an article about that and did a podcast about it.

But anyway, that inspired me to try.

I'm going to try a new series, which I am calling Other People's Lessons.

And the idea of this is I take people giving a top 10, usually top 10, but giving lessons about

something, some design-oriented thing, but not specifically magic. And then what I'm going to do

is derive magic lessons, magic design lessons, and game design lessons, from those lessons.

So today, I am doing 10 poetry tips by a woman named Karzile.

So I think she was in a class, a poetry class, and she wrote this for an assignment, I think,

and the teacher liked it so much that he or she,

I'm not sure, anyway, they posted it. And I thought it was really interesting. And so I'm going

to use the, it's 10 lessons about how to be a better poet. And I thought that would be a really

interesting jumping off point. And one of the things I like about the series, the idea of the series, is that I'm going to show the universality of creation, is the idea.

Okay, so lesson number one, know your goal.

So what Kyle is trying to say here is when you're writing a poem, you need to know, well, what are you

trying to do? What's your subject matter? What are you trying to say? What's your message? You know,

that if you're going to sit down and write a good poem, you need to start by knowing what it is you're

trying to do. Well, I don't need, this one's pretty, I don't have to, some of these I have to find my version of it, but this one is pretty straightforward. Are you going to make a magic card? You know, you can design, whether you're

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