I often find that talking to myself through a process helps immensely, sadly in a small house with nowhere to hide this is not viewed as a romantic eccentricity. In fact I'm told to shut up as someone is trying to watch a programme about baking.
Just trifling now with creating Lofts and coming to terms with the fact that the DevDocs Wiki is out of date when using the newer Blueprint creator. It's telling me I should be pasting a copy of an .IGS into a cross Section ID. OK, where's that gone then?
I think the main issue for a fledgling like myself is that so many tutorials I have read seem to leave one or more really important things out, not on purpose obviously. Videos on YouTube skim over the minutiae and sometimes come to a dead end just as things start getting important. The most helpful looking ones are always naturally in a foreign language. Scouring the UKTS forums for exact information that isn't later contradicted is a minefield. Maybe a site like this one would be the ideal place to have absolute bang up to date tutorials all in one place. I'm certainly capable of writing them for the things I have already understood like sign reskins etc. You yourself Jim certainly have a way with explaining how to do something. I do realise how long it takes to create a near perfect tutorial that can cater for all levels of ability and understanding, my friend is a school teacher and I teach my 11 year old son at home. I know all about leaving important things out!
I guess no one is forcing us to go down this road of putting things into a computer program, it's clear to me now that this hobby/interest has a very narrow choke-point where keen creative people simply give up due to the complexities and the variables it throws up. I guess some of us are just up for a challenge