Writing is not the hardest part of being a writer. One of the hardest parts is deceiving your characters, sending them, knowingly, into traps, and forcing them to deal with the terrible shit in life. Sometimes, it's in the knowing--that things will turn out badly in the end, but writing it anyway.
Though they're literally made of ink, we breathe life into characters, and before we know it, before we can stop it from happening, they become real. We see them when we close our eyes. Their pain is our pain; their joy is our joy. In this way, writing is the most wonderful way of going mad...
