Mulling Versus Making

In the latest installment of the Creative Workflow series: the virtues of letting your mind wander.

I was having dinner with an old friend of mine who happens to be a wonderful writer, and he was lamenting the fact that the full-time newspaper job he'd taken on had caused him to deliver his latest book a few years behind schedule. We got into a conversation about how the daily obligations of 9-to-5 work can interfere with creative projects like writin…