I can relate partially to this. To learn a language fully you need to work on a fairly good size project and one morning you will have 'flow'. It is similar to learning a human language. You need to get to the point where you 'think' in the language and you stop flipping through a fat reference book or jumping from website to website for information.
However, I go a bit different:
(01) I try to go over all the basics and repeat simple exercises from other language books. I do the for loops arrays operators etc ... etc. I spend a lot of time here in order to remember the syntax. I hate syntax mistakes so the earlier I get proficient the better.
(02) Objects and functions break in easily
(03) The web stuff and libraries
(04) Project here. Get your last epiphany and repeat it in Lisp!
I am going through Clojure at the moment and I had to introduce an additional step to the above, an UNLEARN stage, to change my thinking to functional! Current 'epiphany project', type in Clojure code in a textbox, parse with javascript and print the results. I am at 'Hello World' :).
