Stop Thinking It Should Be Easier

Someone shared this in a writing group I'm a part of on FB today: 25 Things Writers Should Stop Doing

I can specifically relate to #2, 3, 4, 6, 8... lots of them. But I think #7 in particular:

 7. STOP THINKING IT SHOULD BE EASIER
 It’s not going to get any easier, and why should it? Anything truly worth doing requires hella hard work. If climbing to the top of Kilimanjaro meant packing a light lunch and hopping in a climate-controlled elevator, it wouldn’t really be that big a fucking deal, would it? You want to do This Writing Thing, then don’t just expect hard work — be happy that it’s a hard row to hoe and that you’re just the, er, hoer to hoe it? I dunno. Don’t look at me like that. AVERT YOUR GAZE, SCRUTINIZER. And get back to work.