Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.