Hello Reader, This week on the water Trying to work out how writers actually compose the sentences that arise in their brains, then flow out through their fingers onto their screens is a mug’s game. And when those sentences coruscate with brilliance, the mystery deepens even further. How do they do it? It’s rather like asking what’s going on in the “mind” of an AI when you pose a complicated question to it and it comes back at you with a deeply thoughtful and provocative response. The truth...