There's a huge difference between writing "when the mood is on" and not writing when you're exhausted. Zeldman seems to conflate the two in this piece. I find

There's a huge difference between writing "when the mood is on" and not writing when you're exhausted. Zeldman seems to conflate the two in this piece. I find that inspiration comes from forcing my way through the first paragraph. Usually after that point, I'm ready to go and can keep going to the point of getting cranky if anyone interrupts me. The strategy Zelman describes may work for him--he's published books so clearly he's found a method that works. Still, I've seen these same arguments used time and time again in order to justify procrastination, resulting in nothing ever gets done. Edit: Having written this, I guess I'm now obligated to go open up the ol' word processor, huh?