As a music student at Juilliard, composer David Lang was told by a professor to "write some melodies." As Lang later recalled in a conversation with fellow composer Steve Reich:

[My teacher] went into my music notebook and drew it in pencil: "Write a melody that goes

Obviously, publishers charge more for thicker books. They cost more to make. It's only fair. That said, the figure we landed on when I was an editor always felt like a guess, at least when working for certain publishers. You know how monkeys throwing darts outperformed professional stock

I love it when a plan comes together. —"Hannibal" Smith, The A-Team

Sequencing is an essential skill and one of the unsung benefits of real-world experience. Take cooking: If I'm following a recipe, I have to understand how the whole process works before starting at