I don't think your analogy is quite the same. A better one would be that a journalist or sports writer should take a job as an editor. That would allow him the

I don't think your analogy is quite the same. A better one would be that a journalist or sports writer should take a job as an editor. That would allow him the ability to think about writing all day without actually writing anything, so that he can go home and work on his novel in the evenings.