A funny thing happened yesterday when I was working on my short story for the faerie anthology… I actually enjoyed writing.
This may sound strange, coming from a professional writer, but I have a love/hate relationship with the actual physical act of writing down words. There are many things I love about the writing process: brainstorming, collaging, revising, copyediting, even galley proofing. But mostly I view the task of writing the first draft as the laborious price I must pay to get to the rest of the fun stuff.
In other words: I don’t like writing so much as I like having written.
Which makes it even more surprising how much I enjoyed writing my short story yesterday. Fingers crossed that this doesn’t mean the writing is mostly garbage, but time will tell.
How about you? Do you love writing, putting words on a page? Or do you love the other parts of writing more?
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