Anna Simpson wrote:
I feel baffled-- writing is hard work,
I'm going to disagree--or at least vary--right here, and say that for the majority of the time I find writing to be both easy and fun. If I didn't, I wouldn't do it as a hobby. Hard work is something I only do when I get paid to. :-)
I *hate* you. :) For me, writing is indeed often hard work... But it's *satisfying* hard work, and that makes it worth doing. Personally, while I can understand the appeal of writing down stories simply for one's own amusement, I very much doubt that I would write anything if there wasn't someone, somewhere who I thought would want to read it. It's actually kind of hard to explain *why*... I guess it's that the story doesn't actually feel *finished* until it's been read. Plus, one of the things that makes the hard work satisfying is the anticipation that I can get better and better at it, and that's hard to do without some sort of feedback.