When Writing is Easy and When It Is Not

That which makes difficult writing worth the effort

I used to write by the numbers. “Prolific” is the kind word for this tendency, which for most writers is more accurately described as “writing too much and too often to be very concerned with quality.” There was a trick to this, though I was only dimly aware of it when I was performing it. At first, I was cashing in on the ideas I had very recently been…