This is something I hear a lot.. worse still is the unspoken implication from people that this is something that everyone can do.. they just haven't yet.
For someone who a putting a genuine effort into making it part of their career path, such claims do not come across quite right. (I confess I really love midwifery and am yet to work out how to meld or share time between both.)
To me it is like watching a sports star or your favourite musician and announcing you could totally do that, IF you wanted to!
Writing is like many things, some people have more natural talent for it but a lot of it can be learned. This often happens through trial and error and establishing what doesn't work. The other thing it takes is a lot of time, effort and research. Oh, and a lot of revision.
Buddy and I have written our book together. Writing with someone else has certainly been a challenge. It means negative feedback can't be ignored and we've had more than one heated discussion about whether or not something has a place in our book. We've gone out of our way to avoid a lot of tropes; I can assure that there is a reason young adult books kill off the parents. That would have been so much easier! However critical review of these aspects has hopefully resulted in a better overall plot that gives us a stronger dynamic between characters in this book and for the rest of the series.
I wonder if other people have things that they are proud of that other people wave off as 'easy'. Do other writers feel this way when people dismiss their efforts?
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