Ryan Feller asked Josh Sundquist:

what was the hardest part of writing your novel?? and your graph about cucumbers (and others things) was awesome!! really like you!!

Josh Sundquist So we are in final production of my novel, which will come out in 2017. Fiction was much harder than I expected. With non-fiction (that is my two memoirs) you just sort of think about what happened and then choose the most interesting things and write them. There's a very finite pool of possibilities.

But with fiction literally ANYTHING can happen. So you are trying to choose the most interesting/insightful set of events out of a set of infinite events. Which is both more challenging and intimidating creatively.

(Note: I'm not complaining, I like that it is creatively challenging, that is the whole point of writing for me)

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