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Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.

As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such.

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.

My approach is to treat writing very much as a job.