Writing Is Pain, but Environment Can Help

One of my favorite quotes from G. K. Chesterton goes like this:There is a kind of work which any man can do, but from which many men shrink, generally because it is very hard work, sometimes because it will lead them whither they do not wish to go. It is called thinking.Writing demands thinking, which is why it requires what John Stott once called PIM—“pain in the mind” time. It’s slow, often agonizing work, this process of thinking, revising, and pressing an idea until you’ve considered i