The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while Foster the People plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.
Maggie StiefvaterWhen you were born, the rivers dried up and the cattle in Rockingham County wept blood.
Maggie Stiefvater