I was talking to a writer friend yesterday about writing and how you never know...

I was talking to a writer friend yesterday about writing and how you never know when a novel is going to turn, open, blossom. I have slogged along for months at a time thinking: this is not working, this will never work.
And then, suddenly, something will shift.
There will be a loosening; some light will get in.
The thing about this is that you never know when it’s going to happen.
It can be the day you are ready to give up.
It can be two weeks after the day that you were ready to give u...