How Do I Know What I Think Until I See What I Say?

I was catching up on my New Yorker reading this morning (work has been so crazy I'm even behind on The New Yorker , which never happens), and I came across this article on insight. It's a good article, and you should totally read it*, but the part that interested me particularly this morning was when it talked about how scientists and mathemeticians described insights and how they happened for them. Basically, they all said "you can't force insight." (You can't force insight and you can't hurry love. No, you just have to wait. Just trust...sorry.) I think maybe this is what I meant when, a long long time ago, I said I don't get writer's block . I don't. That doesn't mean that I don't go through periods when the writing is not working, or when I'm stumped about how to do things, but I don't get "blocked." I just wait. Anyway, the reason why I'm writing this is not just to give you a book report on The New Y