Writing is hard.

I've mentioned The Moment podcast before, why, because it's an amazing podcast. Brain Koppleman is a great interviewer. He's smart, witty and funny. He also brings great guests who can articulate their struggles and successes in ways that make you feel, 'this will be me.'

In 2014 he interviewed Jon Lovett, speech writer for Hilary Clinton and President Obama in the White House. As well as creator of the television show 1600 Penn.

Around 56:00 minutes into the interview he says, "One of the biggest lessons I had to learn, as a writer, is that writing is really hard."

I agree with this point. As someone who wants to write for a living, I often feel this way. Writing is hard and doesn't get the respect it deserves.

Lovett goes on to say that he gets requests for help on writing toasts or letters and receives writing form "these people who are articulate and smart and the writing they produce is useless, terrible writing. And I often think the reason it's bad, no one ever told them writing was hard and, it will take you a while and it there will be a lot of frustration. And you need that and, you won't be done until it's been hard. Send somebody back with that piece of advice and they can come back with something a little bit better."

I don't feel like my writing is worth anything and I feel like he's talking about me, ever though he doesn't even know who I am, when he says that. But the hardest part is that I know writing is hard. It's a lesson I know already. And I'm working to write everyday to get better at the hard stuff.

Like he says here, he had to "learn from others how hard it was suppose to be. How much thought it was suppose to take. The care and consideration each paragraph and structure and all that stuff was suppose to take."

I feel that way all the time. But most of all I feel that writing needs to get out there. People who write spend a lot of time making it right. Making it perfect. Making it for everyone, when it just needs to be for the people who want it.