I think the hardest part of writing is the middle, just as with a climb, a journey, a rafting trip … When you’re starting, it’s very exciting. There’s a lot of energy. You don’t know exactly what’s gonna happen. When you’re ending, you get to put all the finishing touches on. When you’re in the middle, you’re trying to make it all fit, and you don’t necessarily see the end yet.
So the middle is when it’s the most grueling, and when you also can lose faith, writing takes a huge amount of confidence, and so you just have to trust that you’re gonna make it to the end. So that writing, figuring out the climax of the book, figuring out how everything fits together is the hardest.
