Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
– Colette, author (28 Jan 1873-1954)
Metaphor
Surely some revelation is at hand.
Metaphor 
Maybe a little abstract and arcane, but it seems I’m always bobbing around in abstractions. Wasn’t there an old joke about “how long can you tread water?”
Ah, well, now that’s a truly helpful take on things.