The myth of inspiration is one most writers accept without question. Ask someone why they haven’t written the thing they want to write, and the answer comes quickly: they haven’t been inspired yet.

They’re waiting. For the right moment, the right mood, the right convergence of energy and idea that will carry them through a blank page and out the other side with something worth keeping. They believe this convergence will arrive eventually, and that when it does, the writing will come easily — fluently, almost effortlessly, the way it looks from the outside when a writer describes their process in an interview.

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