I wrote this in my newsletter the other week:
People will tell you that they hate writing but love having written. I’ve always been the other way around. From the sweet and easy flow state to the picking-away at a block of unyielding stone with a pin, it all has pleasure. Problem-solving stages are awful but have the promise of a problem solved and something learned. The process of discovering or building the idea, and then asking questions of the idea, letting it run to see what happens, iterating and adding or subtracting. Sure, we’re all commercial writers and we all have goals around being able to continue to buy food and shelter. But it’s the act that keeps us up at nights.
Today I am scripting, and it is a joy to be able to do so.