It's All Fun

 
Brainstorming a new story is fun. Whether with new characters or characters I've already had fun writing about.
 
Watching the duststorm of ideas for characters, situations, and settings coalesce around and into an outline that describes the story is fun.
 
Writing the specific word-by-word story from that still-somewhat-high-level outline is fun.
 
Adjusting the outline based on how the writing progresses is fun. Mostly.
 
Realizing that something I've just written answers a question/solves a problem that was going to need to be answered/solved soon is fun. Exciting, even.
 
Counting the words and seeing the growing pile completed chapters is fun.
 
Writing my way out of the dreaded "middle" is grueling–but also fun.
 
Seeing how the ending is coming together ahead of my typing is fun.
 
Typing "The End" is fun. And sweet. Very, very sweet.
 
Ignoring the completed draft for at least a month is a *lot* of fun. Yes. Yes, it is.
 
Reading the completed draft, and editing it as I go, is fun.
 
Sending the freshly-edited manuscript to first readers is fun. If a bit nerve-wracking sometimes.
 
Accumulating feedback from the first readers is (usually) fun.
 
Editing while reading the full manuscript again, this time armed with feedback from the first readers, is fun. Because I like reading (most of) what I write (these days).
 
Line editing is not fun. Line editing is work. But it's good to get it out of the way.
 
Formatting the manuscript for print-on-demand and ebook is fun-ish. It's more fun to see the final result, though, than it is *produce* that result.
 
Releasing the book (at last) is fun. And also very, very sweet.
 
So, yeah, it's all fun. In one way or the other.
 
-David
 
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