Writing book is hard

Writing a book doesn’t have to be difficult, but many people will say it is, especially aspiring authors

I have met people who did not think that writing a book would be a difficult task, and only later discovered that it was not an easy struggle

We have found it difficult to write a novel, but I don’t think this truth can be overstated

Abnormal difficulty can mean you’re not dealing with a writing problem, but rather anxiety or depression or some other neurodivergence, and those are normal and okay but can’t be solved the same way you’d solve an average writing block — you can’t “write your way through” depression

You’ll only sink deeper, like with quicksand

Writing is hard because sometimes — or perhaps many times — the words do not match the imagery of a specific scene that you have in your mind

It feels like there is always something that’s lost in translation as soon as it’s immortalized on the page

Writing is hard because you are dealing with the infinite