Jimmy Wales wrote:
When I sat down to write the article, though, I was seized with horrible writer's block. That's astounding, for a guy who does hardly anything but write 8 hours a day 5 days a week. If my collected email output were collected and published in book format, I hate to think of what it must weigh.
I know what you mean. What I like about Wikipedia is that I can quickly slap down the bones of an article, without feeling that I have to get it *right*. I can then leave it to simmer, and return to it a few weeks later, admire what others have added to it and mercilessly rewrite my earlier work. Run an article through a few cycles like that and you start to get good stuff. :-)