Practise with every known method and varient you can think of. Nobody will ever fully appreciate what truly works until you personally dig your own solar still or try to light a green, 6' log with paper matches. I have done both. There are masters who somehow take inferior materials, throw them together in form that defies every tidy illustration and have a fire going. It's called experience, and like a musical improvisation the structure is in there, just bent and stretched into something new and wonderfull. I always liked the story of how BURNING MAN got started, and I was there <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />!