Peter King of the Los Angeles Times knows that firsthand. Deadline pressure is sometimes exactly what is needed to get the writing going, though. The key is to get into a mindset and write. But it's still a struggle. I have timed it - about three minutes.
Good stories are the lyrics of good writing.
Stories about people with descriptions of their surroundings and expressions. Stories that bring you in. Stories that have a voice. Mitch Albom of the Detroit Free Press tells the stories of people in sports, many of whom have no voice. Pretty much everybody in this room played sports at some point or another, perhaps not well, but they played.