
Some writing absolutely must be done alone. Hemingway said it perhaps most famously, but Kristina Moriconi gave the idea her own spin in this very column this past July.

Shut Up and Write! There are books. Meetups. Online sessions. There are methods marketed to writers who want to write but, due to any number of circumstances, cannot get the words down on the page. Writer’s block. Lack of time. Lack of discipline. I am not here to tell you those methods can’t work sometimes.…