crunch time

Why is it that when watching someone else play chess, give a speech, or play soccer it is so easy to see how to do it better? I have the same experience when looking at someone else's photograph, book, movie, or outfit. Through every book I read, my mind is constantly editing - each sentence, paragraph, and plot improved upon so effortlessly. Yet, when I sit down at my pc to write - nothing! Just trying to put down in words a short story that actually happened to me becomes laborious, an unnatural act. It's like I'm trying to write in a second language. Where does that masterful editor go when I set out to create my own work?!