Patience

This week I had an interesting experience while writing my current novel. I hope to learn the lesson, or to take it to heart, more fully in the future.
On Monday I wrote for about seven hours (that is, I sat at my computer that long), at the end of which I had only written a little over a page. I kept moving around paragraphs, deleting portions that were unnecessary, rewriting, etc, etc.
The happy difference is that this time I didn't panic (which I have an unfortunate tendency to do). The benefit is that at the end of that somewhat grueling day, I came up a new avenue to pursue and the rest of the week went quite swimmingly.
Nobody ever said it was going to be easy, but it's damn fulfilling!