Loving to write doesn’t mean easy.

I wrote a post in 2008, right before NaNoWriMo, called “Good Questions are a Source of Creative Energy“:

Great fiction, from my point of view, happens when beautiful lies smash up against essential truths. Something, I suppose, every author strives to achieve—though everyone has a different method of getting into the mindset that allows that kind of discovery. My guess is that most authors and artists are stable people with somewhat neurotic tendencies—so that whatever system slides us into ou...