Every Story a New Challenge

I used to have this idea that writing would get easier, that somehow, each subsequent novel would flow a little faster, and I'd know exactly what to do. Imagine my disappointment when that fantasy got demolished.

I'm drafting a new novel, my fifth to date, and while I have no doubt that my writing has improved a great deal since my first attempts, the process, apparently, does get any easier. In fact, in some ways it's more frustrating, if only because I feel it should be easier, and also beca...