Writing should be easy. Everyone does it everyday, and sure, we can get our points across. But writing is more than that. It's making people feel what the characters are feeling. It's bringing a world to life using only words. It's overcoming all of your own fears and doubts. That shouldn't be too hard, right?

1. Writer's struggle with being too open.

Sometimes there are a lot of stories that you want to write, but you can't. Either they aren't yours to tell, or they're too close to you. It's those stories that you let yourself write when you're really angry or just need to vent. Then you delete them because if you shared them, everyone would know exactly what you were talking about. It's those stories that happened to a friend of a friend or a relative and you're not even sure if they know that you know. It's those stories that you aren't ready to tell because they're too personal.

2. Writer's struggle with being too vague.

This usually happens when you write one of those stories mentioned above but you leave all of the details out. It's kind of like passive aggressive Facebook posts; no one understands them, and they're annoying. This can also happen when you want your readers to figure something out, but you don't want to tell them what it is. Instead of leaving a way-too-obvious trail of breadcrumbs, you give them nothing. Finding a balance between the two is one of the hardest parts of writing.

3. Writer's struggle with perfectionism.

Perfectionism is practically a necessary skill for writers. Who else but perfectionists would rewrite a draft a million times? The problem comes in when you don't know when to stop editing. Yeah, your first three drafts were probably pretty bad, but your work will never be perfect. The only way to get published is to eventually put the pen down and decide that your work is ready. Even after you decide this, you'll probably look back a few years later and wonder what you were thinking.

4. Writer's struggle with self-doubt.

You'll get a story idea and then think it's stupid. You'll start your first draft and get bored in the middle. You'll finish a draft and give up on it. See how counterproductive this can be? It's easy to get discouraged no matter where you are in your writing process, and as soon as you start to doubt, your whole story falls flat.

5. Writer's struggle with writer's block.

All of the above things culminate into the writer's ultimate enemy, the over talked about and really cliche writer's block. It can turn writing from something you love into something you hate. It makes every word a struggle. Worst of all, it could last indefinitely. The only way to get through it (and any of the other struggles) is to keep writing.

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