Why are Some Books Harder to Write than Others?
I’ve been asking myself this as I seem stuck on my current project. This was going to be an easy write, just a fun book, nothing serious. I thought it would be equally fun to write, but instead it has taken a more serious turn than I had originally anticipated while dreaming it in my head. And I’m struggling.
It seems to me, it’s something like having kids, to use a perhaps worn-out metaphor for lack of a better one. Each one is unique. Some kids are easier to raise than others. Some are easy-going, others are strong-willed. Books can be like that too.
The first three books in my Dancing through Life Series just seemed to roll out of my pen. They were written during NaNoWriMo. I had visions of writing a new book every November. That vision proved to just be an illusion that has long since faded away. The last book in the series I wrote over the past summer. Again it flowed. It took me a while to get to writing my non-fiction book on grief, but once I started, it too flowed. The hard part had been waiting to be ready and then recognizing that I was ready.
Other books, though, were written over the course of years, whenever I found time in between my position in ministry and raising three children. I don’t remember them as being hard to write, but maybe my memory is faulty. Maybe it wasn’t hard because I only wrote when I had chunks of time and felt compelled to write. Perhaps what’s making this so difficult is the nagging thought that I have to be writing. And so I sit down and struggle and nothing comes. Perhaps with time it will get easier. In the meantime, I labor away and hope my work isn’t in vain.
What has been your experience with writing multiple books? Is each one different to write than the other, or do you have a natural rhythm for each book?
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