This is K.M. Island and you are listening to the 371st episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

Podcast.

A question I'm frequently asked by writers is when does writing get easier?

And for a long time, my answer,

always said with a slightly evil grin

was that it doesn't.

After that first book, it only gets harder.

To which I generally then received wall-eyed stares of panic in response.

However, I'm happy to now be able to amend that statement.

Writing does get harder when you first start out running on nothing but instinct and enthusiasm

writing is nothing but fun and easy and then you start learning the principles of the craft and things get overwhelming fast.

You get difficult and sometimes even down right depressing as you struggle to have your execution

measure up to your new understanding of how you want things to be.

That's what I'm talking about when I say writing gets hard or not easier,

the more you know.

But then something else happens.

Just here within the last few years, I feel like I've turned an amazing corner in my

writing. I actually really know what I'm doing. I've reached a point where I'm in

control of the story instead of the other way around.

Honestly, sometimes I just want to look up from my writing and laugh maniacally like the

Emperor in Star Wars and talk about how I can feel the force flowing through me.

Now I fully expect to reach a point, very soon probably,

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