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The author relates her experience in learning how to paint with the process of learning how to write. It is stated that painters learn to paint by painting, while writers learn to write by writing. She says she learned that lessons are most useful when delivered at the point of need. The qualities that are necessary for learning are discussed, which are playful experimentation, self-regulation, willingness to learn from others, and joy. The author suggests that if teachers let students muck about with paper and words, learning will happen in the messiness of doing.