Choose a color, perhaps a marmalade redhead or grisette or yellow chrysanthemum bride-for-hire. Create a steel trap for each of them. Decide which offends you least and paint it with adjectives like marbles sink into a bed of seaweed. Fawn over your creation until it gestates into something ugly; a monster you would rather abandon but it's too late now. There's something inside that won't die and it needs your complete attention, or else it will wither down one side. You don't want to give birth to a terrible freak, half Nikosthenic amphora and half Lakonian cup. Then it will hang on to you, and the side where it was torn from you will always be bleeding, Nitabuch's layer, to be precise, and so will you.

Do this exercise several times a day.