The writing process gets a lot more exciting after you do it for a decade

I'm on my 59th draft of that first chapter, and I'm not gonna say that I just nailed it, but I think that I totally nailed it.

Anyway, whether I nailed it or not (I did), this has been an insane process. I have never before in my life written anything this way. It's been extremely frustrating. It sucks to grasp for something day after day and not even co…