Have you read "Misery" by Stephen King?
I won't spoil the story if you haven't, but it's about a writer who had a bad car crash and was saved by his #1 fan, except saved might not be quite the right word. Anyway, the point is not about the story so much as about the writing the author has to do. Most people can write, but they cannot do so for any length of time. The thing is that the work of writing is the ability to write for hours at a time, not to bang out a couple of hundred words and think you've written something... Read more