When I started before the rotary revolution, pretty much all I had as available resources were block collection books, or the newspaper type patterns. My first book, for example, was 101 Blocks by Ruby McKim (one of the newspaper ladies).
https://www.amazon.com/101-Patchwork.../dp/0486207730
That was all we were given, here's a black and white picture of a block, often with no dimensions just a grid. No layout usually. No discussion on fabric selection or seam allowance. No hints on sashing or alternate blocks or dimensions or yardage or construction techniques, so I learned to draft out my patterns and figure out the yardage from there by graph paper, folding, and eventually I started using compasses and protractors and other things from drafting supply stores before quilting versions were made and sold. Moved on from there into my computer with Electric Quilt, but I still keep graph pads handy. I learned about setting options by looking at the work of others, and how since I wanted to showcase my piecing more than my quilting, typically sashing or all over patterns were better for me then alternate squares.
Sometimes I'm rather mystified when someone wants a pattern for something that is very very simple to me, like a 9-patch variation and I wonder am I answering the question they are asking. For me it's well you take the finished dimension, add 1/2 inch for your seam allowance, cut two strips that size, sew them together, add another strip, cut. Resew. Rinse. Repeat. Put together. Done.
So when someone here is asking for directions or wants a pattern, do you need to be reminded that seams are 1/4"? Do you want actual construction details down to the "press seam toward" of each and every sub-unit? And then the order to connect the sub-units? And then the blocks, sashing, borders?? How do you then deal with different styles or construction techniques? A lot of what I'm learning these days are different techniques, like I cut and sew large and trim down but I started by being very precise.
Do you want figured out yardage? Is yardage enough or do you need cutting diagrams? Is it the math, either in adding in seams or best way to cut that is confusing? Do you need to know when we say "take a square and cut it along the diagonal" that means the long diagonal edge is bias and the two outer edges are straight on grain and why that can be important? Is it the math that happens with diagonals?
What are the things you are wanting and needing and looking for in a pattern/directions?