They say you have to write every day. Folks who've written a lot know that some days are great and other days are pathetic. The great times are the ones we spend in the zone. Being in the zone is working in a trance, like when you drive across country and suddenly find you've crossed two states without knowing it, and without making a wrong turn. My kids love this.
Daddy's in the zone, let's get tattoos.
They know that there is little short of actual calamity that is bringing me out of there, and they are fascinated by the level of concentration. Now if I could write like that every time I sat down to type, I'd be a happy man. But I can't. Most of us can't. We run out of gas.