Inside the Creative Mind

Have you ever wished you could peek inside a writer's mind to learn why it does what it does? Of course not. You're basically a decent human being, and you would never stoop to the level of prurient interest required to peek behind that veil. There are far more socially acceptable activities you could be doing instead.1

But maybe, every once in a while, there's a piece of you that looks at a writer in the throes of creative activity, and you can't help but ask yourself "why? Why that? Why...