Chloe Testa asked Gregory B. Sadler:

What's been the hardest part (so far) in your writing and publishing journey?

Gregory B. Sadler Well, there's really five answers to that question -- depending on what kind of writing we're talking about. So, this will be a bit long-winded. But it's a great question!

So, the easier ones first -- articles, blogging, and translations. I've been writing academic articles since I was a grad student. With those, the writing itself isn't hard, though I do tend to push up against length requirements. The hard part with those was finding a home for them in a suitable journal, and learning how to deal with the inevitable rejection letters.

I also got involved in some translation -- mainly French and Latin works -- back in grad school, and continued it into the present. With those, it's, believe it or not, catching the really dumb mistakes one makes (e.g. leaving out a whole line!) in the manuscripts.

Blogging -- something I've done for the last 5 years -- there the challenge is finding the time.

The last two would be getting my first book published, and then getting down to writing the next ones. . . That first book -- Reason Fulfilled By Revelation -- took something like 7 years from the start to publication. I had to jump through a lot of "hoops" (reviews processes of various sorts, and then the awful work of proofreading!), but it did get through in the end. Right now, I've got several book projects -- but it's a matter of finding, or rather, making the time to actually get research and writing done on those. . ..

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