“The trouble with writing,” concludes Michelle Huneven, “is writing.” Truer words were never spoken.
But wait—there’s more: “Writing is difficult in the beginning, difficult in the middle and difficult at the end.” And it’s “a weird, lonely occupation with only intermittent and unpredictable satisfactions and rewards.” And “no matter how many times you do it, you start out every time with the sick sense that you don’t know what you’re doing.”
My favorite line, though? “Some writers think their work can’t be improved, or shouldn’t be edited at all. More of us pingpong between grandiosity and despair.”
It’s like she knows me.
