Writing Through the Slog

We had a great conversation in the Winter Writing Festival chat room a few weeks ago. I’m not sure what the impetus was, but during one of our sprint breaks, we started talking about those writing sessions where you just slog it out, word by word, slowly, painstakingly building sentences.

What makes some days a slog and some a breeze? We know the stories we’re trying to tell. Even for eternal pantzers, there’s some basic sense of where the story’s going. Or why these two characters you’re devo...