Writing for a living sounds difficult and mysterious, but the truth of the matter is, it’s pretty easy for me. Except when it isn’t. My agency job is usually great, but there are times when writing for clients is like the most dreaded and tedious school paper you’ve ever been assigned–if that school paper went on for weeks and you had to make sure the paper made your professor money and you had to act really excited about the whole process and your ability to pay your mortgage depended on the grade you got.

Which is why I was so happy to see this last week: a graph of the levels of fun involved in the writing process. Let me tell you, it’s 100% accurate–especially that last step.


(click for bigger–from the Not Exactly Rocket Science blog, found via BoingBoing).