Writer’s Desk: Every Damn Day

If you’re a writer with an unusually generous bent, it’sgreatto hear about those writers who can just hurl the stuff out, like Ray Bradbury tossing offFahrenheit 451 in just nine days on a rented typewriter. But the rest of us have to work at it, and it’s hard then to be generous of mind when you’re on your fifth day in a row of absolutely nothing.

Still, that doesn’t mean there’s any way around it. As Walter Mosley said, writing is an everyday avocation. That’s particularly true if you’re tr...