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Norman Mailer is famous for coining the phrase "bitch goddess" to describe the Muse: the process of writing, more specifically, the process of getting it written in the best form possible. She makes it so hard, so painful, yet we keep on struggling in spite of her.
A female screenwriter friend describe screenwriting in a similar way: "It's like waiting for your bad boy boyfriend to call and then when he does he treats you badly, but you keep going out with him."
Works for guys too. It could be the difficult, crazy yet dangerously exciting girlfriend who keeps you waiting, cancels at the last minute, doesn't return your calls, flirts with other guys right in front of you et al. Yet we hang around until she dumps us or we find a good shrink. But enough about me.
Bottom line: being any kind of writer is hard. I could find a couple of dozen other adjective, more colorful adjectives, more descriptive adjectives, but at the end of the day...writing is just plain hard.
Some days less so than others. And even those days aren't easy. It's never easy.
That's why it takes a committment to stick with it. Whether it's the bitch goddess or the bad boy boyfriend or the off the wall girlfriend if you're going to be a writer, get used to it.
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