I propose a challenge. Wherever you are, right now, using your mind and consciousness, locate in your experience 7 referents (thing, feeling, situation, collective, etc.) that you do not know how to refer to with language. Then, using language, write something that refers to and/or describes these referents. Such a game is more instructive than it superficially appears. Every great author learns and practices something quite like this to some degree, but most do so intuitively, rather than consciously… and in so describing this to you? I have done what is described.