Writing is Hard

I don’t want to give the impression that I think writing is easy. I’m not doing that am I?

Even though I enjoy it, I’m the first to tell you it’s the hardest thing I do. It's so hard I don't even know how to do it. Each time I start a piece it's like I have to learn all over again. 

I liken it to lifting heavy things all day without a dolly. It’s that hard to me.

*Gene Weingarten says if writing is easy to you, "you're not doing it right."

I keep trying because that’s the way I express myself. 

I can’t draw, act, or weave. 

When I write one sentence that works it’s as if I painted something like a vase of flowers.

It’s strange, I know. But writing makes me smile like pretty paintings do. 

*See "The Search for Universal Truth" by Marc D. Allan, Writer's Digest, Nov./Dec., 2011