All That’s Worthwhile Is Difficult

This seems to be the universe’s message to me at the moment, a reminder that writing, this thing I love, will never be fall-off-a-chair easy, but that that doesn’t mean it isn’t the right path for me. As Maggie Stiefvater pointed out the other week in her Tumblr response to my question, it’s easy sometimes to romanticise a writing career – or, in fact, any career, any goal we are seeking. If we can just get this thing, this lifestyle, this next step on the ladder, life will be so much more pe...