Writing and the Creative Life: Flow

We revel in it when we have it and curse it when we don’t.

As writers, we know the experience. We sit down to write. Conjure up a scene in our mind. Fingers on keyboard. Scene description. Dialogue. Characters coming to life. Scene end. Leads directly to the next scene. Deeper into the story universe. We are there. More writing. Another scene. And another. And…

We look up. Blink. The clock. It’s two hours later. We’ve pounded out 5… 8… perhaps 10 pages. Just. Like. That. Where did the time go? We can’t help but grin. That experience. Being so…