Every writer is different. Habits, choice of words, style and voice vary from person to person. Writing news stories or articles might be one person's forté, while fictional stories or poems might be another's.
Regardless, there are a few instances and struggles that each writer can generally relate to.
1. Staring at a blank page to begin writing has a tendency to either be a challenge or an adventure.
The place where the magic begins. It could take hours, it could take days -- there's only one way to find out.
2. Because you either know exactly what you want to say, or you have no idea where to begin.
Wait, what was I trying to say again?
3. Writer's block.
Enough said.
4. Trying to come up with a decent introduction can be a strenuous effort.
Just when you think that you're off to a good start, you suddenly forget everything that you've ever known.
5. But when you finally come up with some witty wording for it, the feeling is sheer bliss.
Is there any better feeling?
6. Knowing what you want to say, but struggling to find the words.
You can think of every single word in the dictionary, except for the one that you're trying to find.
7. Meeting a deadline.
Cue the frantic typing and time crunch.
8. Finding that not everyone will be a fan of what you have to say, but simply not caring.
It all comes down to saying what you need to say, even if everyone is a critic.
9. Reviewing your work one hundred times, publishing it and still managing to find a typo.
[Screams internally.]
10. When you're on a roll, it's an impossible task to pay attention to anything else.
The world could be ending, but you wouldn't know, because you just thought of the perfect conclusion to your short story.
11. Late nights and multiple cups of coffee often lead to some of your best work.
When ditching the mugs and hooking up an IV drip to yourself comes into play.
12. No matter how many times you start over or hit a bump in the road, each word that you scrawl only makes your passion for writing grow stronger.
As Benjamin Franklin once said, "Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing."
