Also, I thought afterward, as an extension of my juicing analogy. Some writers use juicers–James Patterson–rather than juicing the oranges by hand. And even other writers–James Patterson again–hire other juicers to work several juicers at once, doubling, tripling, quadrupling production. Yet there’s something special lost when not using your own hands, isn’t there.

You asked about stumbling blocks. Mine has to be inventing Very Important Things that must be done before I can sit down to write. Like returning emails. Or checking Twitter. Or doing the dishes. Very Very Important! Bah. I downloaded a program called “Freedom” that disables my internet capabilities while I write. Unfortunately it doesn’t do the dishes.