When I started trying to write scholarly articles/books, it was SO hard. Writing doesn’t come easily to me—it never has—but this was unusually hard. I always assumed that some day scholarly writing would come easily to me. It hasn’t.
I started yoga at 50. There’s a reason people don’t start yoga at 50. It’s really, really hard. It’s been sixteen years, and it’s still just as hard. But, recently I realized that, although it’s just as hard, I’m doing things I couldn’t do five years ago, let alone fifteen.
And then I realized that’s how it is with scholarly writing.