The way that we learned to walk was an exhausting and painful process. The way that we learn to tell stories is even more exhausting and much more painful.
Why? I guess it has something to do with our expectations.
It’s like we expect ourselves to be experts at all of this on day one.
We have these great stories in our heads and we expect ourselves to be able to just write them out. We expect ourselves to be able to write one awesome draft and be done with it. Maybe we’re not naïve enough to expect writing to be easy, but we definitely expect ourselves to be better at it. Don’t we?
But we’re not.