Flow state is enormously powerful. When I get into flow with my writing, hours can pass as though they were mere seconds. I can sit at my keyboard entranced, feeling as though there is no distance between me and the words that I’m tapping out on the screen. That I am entirely at one with language, and that there is an open channel of communication between my head, my heart, and the reader. That feeling is transcendental, even sacred, and I am convinced that when we feel that feeling, we are in the process of doing something truly valuable.

- Troy Francis