In a recent appearance on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast, Howie Mandel stated that a big part of his success in show business has to do with “being comfortable with discomfort.” It’s so obvious, sure, but that verbalization of a simple truth really struck a chord with me. In fact, I’ll…

As someone who writes for a living — we’re talking producing, editing and publishing tens of thousands of words every week — there’s one question I get all the time: How do I do it? More precisely: How am I able to just sit down and let the prose flow…