Tyler Durden's Rules For Writing In The Zone, part 1

"How much can you know about yourself, you've never been in a fight? I don't wanna die without any scars." (all quotes in bold from the character Tyler Durden in the movie FIGHT CLUB)

We know 'the zone' as a state of higher mental consciousness in which we focus so completely on the task at hand that we become one with it. The task itself flows as effortlessly as water.

I think of this as "deep writing" (taking the term from Eric Maisel's book of the same name). People in the zone are...